It was rumoured that a few days before her death she had said the child was gone.
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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Some concluded that a spiritual, though not a physical birth had occurred. JS
was buried in...
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Ray Strachey
From 1850 to1880, Hannah Whitall had explored and documented peculiar, enthusiastic American sects such as the Nothingarians
, the Millerites
, and the Fourierites
. RS
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1770: Ann Lee, a member of a religious group which...
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Ann Lee
, a member of a religious group which had split from the Quakers, had a vision telling her to spread the word of Christ's second coming.
Franck, Irene, and David Brownstone. Women’s World: A Timeline of Women in History. HarperCollins; HarperPerennial, 1995.
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Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Summer 1774: Mother Ann Lee and her followers emigrated...
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Mother Ann Lee
and her followers emigrated from England to the USA.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.