ABSTRACT
One of the woman prophets who has received sustained scholarly attention is Anna Trapnel. Her long prophecies have triggered thorough analyses on her political and social discourse, particularly in The Cry of a Stone, or her rhetoric of religious and personal resistance in Anna Trapnel Report and Plea. Trapnel caused considerable commotion during her two-week confinement and attracted the attention of dismissed members of the Nominated Assembly, ordinary Londoners and journalists, some of them favorable to radical sectarian viewpoints. Throughout her work, Trapnel presents herself as one of those lowly things upon which the spirit of God can be poured out, a living proof that the Kingdom is at hand. Anna Trapnel features prominently in her own dream sequences, creating a liminal space where the prosody of language do not replace the meaning of words but move from the symbolic to the semiotic, to what biblical language denotes in the minds of Trapnel and her audience and what language is.
