Askew, Anne | Elaine V. Beilin (essay date 1991)
Elaine V. Beilin (essay date 1991)
SOURCE: Beilin, Elaine V. “Anne Askew's Dialogue with Authority.” In Contending Kingdoms: Historical, Psychological, and Feminist Approaches to the Literature of Sixteenth-Century England and France, edited by Marie-Rose Logan and Peter L. Rudnytsky, pp. 313-22. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1991.
[In the following essay, Beilin maintains that the Examinations use Askew's doubly marginal status as a Reformer and a woman to turn the tables on her Catholic, male interrogators by revealing their errors in thinking and focusing the attention of her readers on her own spiritual victory.]
Responding to the “good people” who were expecting to hear the account of her examinations by the officials of Henry VIII's church and the city of London, Anne Askew, a Reformer from the Lincoln area, did not disappoint them.1 For the Reformist cause she wrote an extraordinarily vivid...
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