That's What She Said (About the Bible)

Mary Cornwallis was well educated and knew French, Hebrew, Greek, and Latin and studied scripture assiduously.

Charles was a prolific and influential author receiving praise from Lord Alfred Tennyson early in her career. As an author of historical fiction and biblical interpreter she sought to read the Bible as living history and used her gifts to fill out the biblical account to illuminate the text.

Josephine Butler is well known for her social activism in advocating for the rights of women, especially the welfare of prostitutes, and less known for the role religious convictions played in her life and advocacy work. She was a courageous activist who dared called men and women of England to listen to the cries of the  oppressed and marginalized using the Bible as her entry point. Butler wrote over 90 books and pamphlets.

Jarena Lee, a pioneer preacher/exhorter in the Methodist tradition was born in 1783 to free but poor parents in New Jersey.

Harriet Beecher Stowe, born in 1811, is the author of the internationally acclaimed, Uncle Tom's Cabin. Stowe's interpretation of the Bible brings together the distinctive male world of the academy and church that she accessed through her father and later her husband and the distinctive women's culture of nineteenth-century America. Harriet was one of the most popular writers of her time. In 1862 Abraham Lincoln called her "the little woman" whose book started the Civil War. --Handbook of Women Biblical Interpreters by Marion Ann Taylor--

Simple questions can trigger big answers and this podcast is about such a question, "Could I do a paper on a woman Interpreter of scripture?" This began Dr. Taylor's research into women interpreters of the Bible.