In 1924 it acquired a cradle that had belonged to Joanna Southcott, who the society considered to be a prophet and in 1814 claimed she was pregnant.
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The story of Joanna Southcott, the eighteenth-century Devon prophetess, might look like a risible fraud. It involves conveniently illegible prophecies, quack...
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Joanna Southcott (1750-1814) was born in Devon to a small farming family. She went into service at a gentleman's house in Exeter and worked there for some time.
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Joanna Southcott, grossly caricatured and seen from the back, lifts her petticoats before three doctors who gaze at her. She says, "Seeing is believing are...
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When Joanna Southcott died, 200 years ago this month, she believed that she was the virgin mother of the new Messiah.
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Psychical researcher Harry Price combined the power of academic language with a cultural identity crisis to build a reputation as a...
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The Jehovah's Witnesses, then called Zion's Watch Tower Tract Society, believe that the...
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"Thompson's writings are indispensable weapons for a new generation of activists struggling to reinvent radicalism." —Sheila Rowbotham.
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Two centuries ago, a 64-year-old woman called Joanna Southcott announced she was pregnant with the Messiah. She died in December 1814,...
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The market town of Bedford, England was once home to a cult of women who thought they could avert Armageddon. Their locked box of prophecies...
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