Romantic-era prophetesses and women writers who engaged with the prophetic mode produced significant writings. Unlike female preaching, which was scripturally prohibited, prophecy was a textual mode authorized by the precedents of female biblical figures, including Miriam and Deborah. In the Romantic era, prophecy was a rhetorical mode used by women to proclaim God’s messages to humanity, as well as declare predictions, claims, and admonitions to the world. Prophetic writings incorporated varied communications such as visions and trances, the interpretation of dreams, speech, and the enactment of corporeal signs. Prophetic literature includes apocalyptic and millenarian writings, life writing, biblical exegesis, epistles, and verse. By claiming to be channels for God’s truth, even laboring-class women could use these textual forms to write and publish their theology and offer spiritual guidance to the public. Women writers, such as Anna Letitia Barbauld, Mary Shelley, and Hester Lynch Piozzi, further used prophetic modes for rhetorical ends in their literary works, especially to engage in public and political discourse.