Anna Trapnel, The Cry of a Stone (1654)

At a moment when Anna Trapnel's work is receiving an increasing amount of critical attention, this new scholarly edition of her The Cry of a Stone (1654) offers readers a fully annotated version of her prophetic text, which mixes autobiography with religio-political commentary, biblical exegesis, and predictions about the future. The text is accompanied by a detailed introduction to the author and the radical sectarian context of her writing, together with an assessment of the critical context in which the writings of such seventeenth-century women have been received in recent years. Trapnel's Cry promises to be an important text for a broad range of readers, especially those interested in women's studies.