John Lilburne: References & Edit History
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Mildred A. Gibb, John Lilburne, the Leveller: A Christian Democrat (1947); and Pauline Gregg, Free-born John (1961, reissued 1986), are comprehensive biographies. An analysis of Lilburne’s political thought is found in Joseph Frank, The Levellers: A History of the Writings of Three Seventeenth-Century Social Democrats: John Lilburne, Richard Overton, William Walwyn (1955, reprinted 1969).
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