Francis Lee

JL had little formal education. Her disciple and son-in-law Francis Lee called her Unletter'd (not meaning in modern terms illiterate) and of no extraordinary . . . Learning. Her biographer Sperle speculates that JL

JL was discovered in the almshouse at Stepney by Francis Lee , who had read and admired her first publication in its recent German translation.

The Pordages were her closest spiritual associates during her middle years, as Francis Lee was at the end of her life.

Francis Lee and his friend Richard Roach also busied themselves writing down and publishing her visions and corresponding on her behalf with her growing international circle of admirers. Since that time JL has enjoyed some...