I'm a new MA student and I'm looking to do my thesis on women's experiences of supernatural and preternatural beings and essentially how this affected their lives (ex. creating reputations and livelihoods for themselves, how the wider public viewed them, etc.) I'm in the very early stages and while my supervisor really supports this topic, he is unsure of whether there will be enough resources to make it viable. I'm familiar with works by Kathryn A. Edwards and Owen Davies in particular that speak about the supernatural, but does anyone have any other suggestions of where to start out?
Cool topic!
I'm not sure how expansive your idea of supernatural/preternatural is; I'm going to assume here it means fairy-world OR God-world.
The first historical people that comes to mind are the prophet-pamphleteers in the Civil War/Interregnum era; there's also Elizabeth Barton, a prophet executed during the early stages of the English Reformation.
Mary Parish is another figure to look at; she kind of bridges the concepts of a cunning-woman and the abilities folded into the "Christian supernatural" (at least, the ones folded into Christianized magic in 15th-16th century Germany, haha--guess what I study). You might have some difficult Googling her; the work of Frances Timbers is a good place to start.
In terms of scholarship more generally, Emma Wilby, Cunning Folk and Familiar Spirits: Shamanistic Visionary Traditions in Early Modern British Witchcraft and Magic should be pretty high on your list to read.
You should totally pursue this topic--there are a lot of primary texts to analyze, and underexplored topics are great for doing publishable work!
Charlotte Rose Millar, Witchcraft, the Devil, and Emotions in Early Modern England. Laura Kounine and Michael Ostling (eds.) Emotions in the History of Witchcraft. E.J. Kent writes a lot about male witches, but, in doing so, contrasts them strongly with female ones.
I reckon there'll be a fair bit (also about to start my postgrad in a similar area), probably best to look into collections of primary sources and analyze them yourself, but in witchcraft study there will be tons, and then it really depends what other categories you're planning on looking into - miracles, ghosts, monstrous births etc