The period 1620-1660 saw the emergence of several English women, of varying classes, who chose Biblical prophecy as an entry into public, political discourse. Many of these women, such as Hester Biddle and Margaret Fell Fox, stated their opinions with relative clarity. Lady Eleanor Douglas, however, made a career of powerfully impenetrable, allusion-filled writing. This paper proposes some methods of addressing Douglas’s texts, and works through some particularly difficult passages.

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• Pickard, R., (2025), "Anagrams etc. The Interpretive Dilemmas of Lady Eleanor Douglas", HSSCommons: (DOI: )

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Original publication: Pickard, Richard. "Anagrams etc. The Interpretive Dilemmas of Lady Eleanor Douglas." Renaissance and Reformation 32 (3): 2010. 5-22. DOI: 10.33137/rr.v32i3.11573. This material has been re-published in an unmodified form on the Canadian HSS Commons with the permission of Iter Canada / Renaissance and Reformation. Copyright © the author(s). Their work is distributed by Renaissance and Reformation under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. For details, see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/.