John Pordage

Standard Name: Pordage, John

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Cultural formation Jane Lead
JL joined the religious household of John Pordage (who was now a widower) and became its joint leader; they lived the life of a commune, holding property in common.
Sperle, Joanne Magnani. God’s Healing Angel: A Biography of Jane Lead. Kent State University, 1985.
5
Friends, Associates Jane Lead
JL braved family disapproval to join the sect run by John and Mary Pordage .
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
168
Occupation Jane Lead
John Pordage died; after this JL took on the leadership of his congregation.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Pordage
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
169-70
Textual Production Jane Lead
In the year of John Pordage 's death, JL published, with her name, her first tract: The Heavenly Cloud Now Breaking, The Lord Christ's Ascension-Ladder sent down.
Sperle, Joanne Magnani. God’s Healing Angel: A Biography of Jane Lead. Kent State University, 1985.
266
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Jane Lead
JL published both an edited, posthumous volume of John Pordage 's writings (Theologia Mystica, with her preface) and her own The Revelation of Revelations.
Ariel Hessayon , writing of Pordage in the...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Jane Lead
JL began her writing career with explicit claims to leadership, and to being a Heavenly Spy, a mediator between men and God.
qtd. in
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
170
Her nine-page prefatory To the impartial and well-disposed Reader in Pordage's...

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