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Jane Lead
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Standard Name: Lead, Jane
Birth Name: Jane Ward
Married Name: Jane Lead
Used Form: Jane Leade
Pseudonym: J. L.
was a seventeenth-century mystic and visionary, a diarist, and a pamphleteer. All her literary roles were aspects of her dominant calling, that of religious leader and Heavenly Spy. Her later works used the medium of other people's hands to write them, because she was going blind. In her last years her writings, boosted by the energy and power of her sect, were read not only in England but internationally.