 Her approach, both logic-based and re-interpretive, influenced both the Protestant discourse of biblical exegesis, and the writings and activities of some Jacobean women who were posing challenges to gender hierarchy (for example, female cross-dressing), at the time.Historically, Speght's tract is significant on many levels.It was rare that an early modern woman would write or publish at all, let alone that the writing would be learned, logic-based and rhetorically refined.