Anna Trapnel Quotes

“There appeared before her eyes the figure of Oliver Cromwell, in the guise of the Old Testament military leader Gideon, going into the Commons Chamber and demanding the resignation of the Speaker and the end of the assembly: 'I saw suddenly a departure of them, though they were very loath thereunto.' When, four days later, news reached the Hillingdon vicarage that exactly these events had just occurred in London, Anna's friends were thunderstruck. She was not mad. God himself was speaking through her.”
― Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown

“A sense of liberation from the restrictions and oppressions of their sex, and a feeling of sisterhood, seems to have been a common experience.”
― Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown

“... she had foreseen the New Model Army's occupation of London in the tense weeks before Charles I was tried. Two years after that she had experienced a further trance and this time saw an army on the battlefield, led by a figure of valour and courage, God indicating that 'Oliver Cromwell, then Lord General, was that Gideon'. Cromwell's defeat of the Scots at the battle of Dunbar soon afterwards offered Anna confirmation of the truth of her visions.”
― Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown

“... it was easy to dismiss her as a fraud until you actually met her -- when the possibility became much more real that she might indeed by God's handmaiden.”
― Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown