Joanna Southcott

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Standard Name: Southcott, Joanna
Birth Name: Joanna Southcott
JS , charismatic religious leader, produced sixty-five or more printed tracts (amounting to 4,500 pages) and many works in manuscript during the first thirteen years of the nineteenth century. These, she maintained, were dictated to her by the Spirit of God.
Hopkins, James K. A Woman To Deliver her People: Joanna Southcott and English Millenarianism in an Era of Revolution. University of Texas Press, 1982.
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Her biographer James K. Hopkins , offers a five-page bibliography of what he calls the dense thicket of Joanna's published writings.
Hopkins, James K. A Woman To Deliver her People: Joanna Southcott and English Millenarianism in an Era of Revolution. University of Texas Press, 1982.
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Black and white photograph of a portrait of Joanna Southcott by William Sharp, done by 1812. She is seen in a frame, seated, dressed all in white with a hat and a simple dress with high neckline and long sleeves. Her hair is dark and curly. She has a stack of books on her lap, a massive one open on top. National Portrait Gallery.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Cultural formation Henry Handel Richardson
Her interest in spiritualism continued even after she had rejected as dishonest and unscrupulous the flamboyant Harry Price , star of the National Laboratory of Psychical Research , who arranged and heavily publicised the opening...
Family and Intimate relationships Charlotte Dacre
CD 's father was born Jacob Rey , a Portuguese Sephardic Jew in London. Tom Paine the radical later recalled that as a poor and friendless child in Ailiffe-Street, an obscure part of the...
Intertextuality and Influence Susan Miles
This strange novel has three almost unlinked sections. The first opens with the child Loveday Mayhew staying at a Welsh farm near Llanpedr in Merioneth, in whose pastoral, idyllic setting she is free to...
Intertextuality and Influence Ann Radcliffe
This novel marks AR 's first big success. It drew widespread critical acclaim.
Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press, 1999.
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The Critical Review praised it and likened the author to Clara Reeve (while making an issue of the fact that, though...
Textual Production 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...

Timeline

3 April 1817: Mary Baker launched her brief career as Princess...

Building item

3 April 1817

Mary Baker launched her brief career as Princess Caraboo, when an Overseer of the Poor at Almondesbury in Gloucestershire reported her presence to a local magistrate.
Gutch, John Matthew. “Caraboo, 1817”. Caraboo. A Narrative of a Singular Imposition, Practised upon the Benevolence of a Lady Residing in the Vicinity of the City of Bristol, By a Young Woman of the name of Mary Willcocks, alias Baker, alias Bakerstendht, alias Caraboo, Princess of Javasu, Baldwin, Cradock and Joy.
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“Princess Caraboo”. The Museum of Hoaxes.

Texts

Southcott, Joanna. A Communication given to Joanna, in Answer to Mr. Brothers’ last Book. Printed by E. Spragg and sold by E. J. Field and W. Simmonds, 1802.
Southcott, Joanna. A Dispute between the Woman and the Powers of Darkness. Printed by E. Spragg and sold by E. Field and W. Simmonds, 1802.
Southcott, Joanna. A Word to the Wise. Printed by J. Heming and sold by E. J. Field and W. Simmonds, 1803.
Southcott, Joanna, and Ann Underwood. An Answer to Thomas Paine’s Third Part of the Age of Reason. Printed by Marchant and Galabin, 1812.
Southcott, Joanna. Answer to Mr Brother’s Book. Printed by S. Rousseau, 1806.
Southcott, Joanna. Copies of Letters Sent to the Clergy of Exeter, from 1796 to 1800. Printed by Marchant and Galabin, 1813.
Southcott, Joanna, and Philip Pullen. Hymns; or, Spiritual Songs. W. Tozer, 1807.
Southcott, Joanna. Joanna Southcott’s Answer to Five Charges in the Leeds Mercury. Printed by A. Seale and sold by E. J. Field and E. Carpenter, 1805.
Southcott, Joanna. On the Prayers for the Fast Day, May, 1804. Printed by S. Rousseau and sold by E. J. Field, 1804.
Southcott, Joanna. Prophecies. Printed by E. Spragg and sold by E. J. Field and W. Simmonds, 1803.
Southcott, Joanna. Sound an Alarm in my Holy Mountain. E. Baines, 1804.
Southcott, Joanna. The Answer of the Lord to the Powers of Darkness. Printed by E. Spragg and sold by E. J. Field and W. Simmonds, 1802.
Southcott, Joanna, and Ann Underwood. The Book of Wonders. Printed by Marchant and Galabin, 1813.
Southcott, Joanna. The Second Book of Wonders. Printed by Marchant and Galabin, 1813.
Southcott, Joanna. The Strange Effects of Faith. Printed for the author by T. Brice, 1802, 6 parts.