SG
seems from her connections and her writings to have been an Anglican
, yet she apparently mustered considerable respect for the far-out fanatical prophet, anti-monarchist Richard Brothers
, millenarian and ancestor of the British Israelite
Friends, Associates
Sarah Green
This was the prophetRichard Brothers
, millenarian and British Israelite
, a man of talent and eccentricity who already had a colourful career behind him. She was forced to evict him when he failed...
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Joanna Southcott
After her associate Richard Brothers
had emerged from a ten-year prison sentence and claimed in print to be the Messiah, JS
published her Answer to Mr. Brothers's Book.
Wordsworth, Jonathan. The Bright Work Grows: Women Writers of the Romantic Age. Woodstock Books, 1997.
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Joanna Southcott
In this year JS
was constantly employ'd in writing either to put in print, or for private Instructions to my Friends.
qtd. in
Hopkins, James K. A Woman To Deliver her People: Joanna Southcott and English Millenarianism in an Era of Revolution. University of Texas Press, 1982.
97
The year produced among other books A Communication given to Joanna, in Answer...
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Sarah Green
The eight-page pamphlet is entitled A Letter to the Publisher of Brothers
's Prophecies. Richard Brothers was a naval officer, as well as a millenarian prophesying the destruction of London quite in the style...