Elisabeth Wast
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was a Scottish religious writer of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, whose account of her spiritual struggles was not published until after her death.
Biography
The unexplained tendency of reference sources to call her Elizabeth West instead of Elisabeth Wast (the name printed on the title-page of her book in its first edition) has caused that edition, which is not in the
, to be overlooked by such standard sources as The Feminist Companion and the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.