Julie Hirst
Ashgate
Hardback
172
2005
This book explores the life and works of the prophetess and mystic Jane Leade (1624?1704) and opens a fascinating window into the world of a remarkable woman living in a remarkable age. Born in Norfolk into a gentry family she enjoyed a comfortable childhood married a distant cousin who was a merchant and had four children. However she found herself totally destitute in London when he died his fortune having been lost abroad. As a widow she proclaimed herself to be a ?Bride of Christ ? and eventually became a prolific author and a respected blind elderly leader of a religious group known as the Philadelphian Society.
Ashgate
Hardback
172
2005
This book explores the life and works of the prophetess and mystic Jane Leade (1624?1704) and opens a fascinating window into the world of a remarkable woman living in a remarkable age. Born in Norfolk into a gentry family she enjoyed a comfortable childhood married a distant cousin who was a merchant and had four children. However she found herself totally destitute in London when he died his fortune having been lost abroad. As a widow she proclaimed herself to be a ?Bride of Christ ? and eventually became a prolific author and a respected blind elderly leader of a religious group known as the Philadelphian Society.