Anne Vaughan Lok was a prominent supporter of the protestant cause and an active participant in the early reformed communities of the mid-sixteenth century. Although recent scholarship on Anne Lok seems to indicate that she may have felt hindered by her own gender and overly dependent on male reformers, a close study of the epistolary exchange between Lok and John Knox reveals the presence of a strong woman, whom Knox often consulted, whom he persistently invited to Geneva, and whom he often considered as an equal.

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• Felch, S. M., (2025), "“Deir Sister”: The Letters of John Knox to Anne Vaughan Lok", HSSCommons: (DOI: )

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Original publication: Felch, Susan M. "“Deir Sister”: The Letters of John Knox to Anne Vaughan Lok." Renaissance and Reformation 31 (4): 2010. 47-68. DOI: 10.33137/rr.v31i4.11706. 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/.