Attending to Sarah Wight: 'Little Writer' of God's Wonders

• Published in: Bunyan studies no. 11; p. 94
• Main Author: Camden, Vera J
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Newcastle Upon Tyne Northumbria University, Department of Humanities, Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences 01.01.2003
• Subjects: British & Irish literature; Bunyan, John (1628-1688); English literature

Wight explains that her unspecified 'disobethence was not wilful, but she was hurried to it, in the violence of temptation' (p. 24). [...]explicit guilt is located in the incident committed when she was twelve, but, by the time Jessey is telling her story some four years later, she describ...