Joanna Southcott

Joanna Southcott (also Southcote ) ( born April 25, 1750 in Gittisham, Devon, † October 27, 1814 in London) was an English enthusiast, in London attracted the public attention for some time.

Life

Her parents were William and Hannah Southcott.

The majority of their lives in line with the conventions of her time. She was a faithful homemaker and worked as a housekeeper for rich families in the region. During these first 40 years probably a charismatic priest had some impact on them. Order in 1792 she began prophecies about the future, mostly to create the weather and the French Revolution. Some of them came true. She gave herself for the 1801 in the Revelation of John ( 12:1 LUT) mentioned " sun woman " and operating the way a winning rich trading with seals, which should have the power to give eternal bliss. For 1814 they prophesied end of the world. More than 60 years old, she claimed in 1814 to be pregnant with the true Messiah. At this time, had a greater number of followers, and the propertied classes, they gathered around. Their donations allowed her a good living. The well- feigned pregnancy found at thousands belief that even this does not at all trailers ( Neuisraeliten, Shabbateans ) was shocked when she died, without having been pregnant at all. Her cult, about 100000-140000 people, she survived several decades. Its followers believed that Joanna would be reborn in 1874 and waited for their reincarnation, and announced the birth of the Messiah. 1817 took place in London riots when thousands of their supporters ran in white robes through the streets and religious slogans shouted. In 1900 the cult was but extinct.

Works (selection)

  • Joanna Southcott: A dispute in between the woman and the powers of darkness; 1802; Facsimile: New York, Woodstock: Poole, 1995; ISBN 1854771949

Swell

  • Richard Reece: A letter from Joanna Southcott to Dr. Richard Reece Containing a circumstantial exposition of her present situation, as givenName by nine medical gentlemen ..., six of splat have pronounced her pregnant with her permission to Dr. Reece, in case of death ago before the birth of the child, to open her body, to find out the cause Which Has produced singular effects examined in a woman of her age; London 1814.
  • Richard Reece: A Complete Refutation of the statements and remarks published by Dr. Reece relative to Mrs. Southcott ... By on impartial observer; London 1815.
  • Richard Reece: A correct statement of the Circumstances did attended the load illness and death of Mrs. Southcott with an account of the appearances Exhibited on dissection and the artifices thatwere employed to deceive her medical attendants; London 1815.

Literature (selection )

  • Library of Biography. Remarkable Women of different Nations and Ages. First Series; Boston; John P. Jewett and Co., 1858
  • Richard Pearse Chope: Life of Joanna Southcott. Bibliography of Joanna Southcott by Charles Lane, Communicated by R. Pearse Chope read at Exeter, 25th July, 1912; Reprint of the Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art; In 1912.
  • The trial of Joanna Southcott falling on seven days, Which commenced on the fifth, and ended on the eleventh of December, 1804 at the Neckinger House, Bermondsey, London; Plymouth: Jas. H. Keys, 1916.
  • Rachel J. Fox: The truth about Joanna Southcott ( prophetess ), the great box of sealed writings, together with a challenge to the bishops to support her writings, by a member of the Church of England; Bedford: Swann & Cave, 1921.
  • Rachel J. Fox: The sufferings and acts of Shiloh Jerusalem, a sequel to "The finding of Shiloh "; London: Cecil Palmer, 1927.
  • Ronald Matthews: English Messiahs; London: Methuen, 1936.
  • George Reginald Balleine: Past finding out, the tragic story of Joanna Southcott and her Successors; London: S.P.C.K., 1956.
  • Emma Grayson: Had They had knowledge; New Plymouth, N.Z. In 1974.
  • Report on the papers of J. Southcott, 1750-1814, religious fanatic, and of her followers, 1801-1896; London: Middlesex Record Office 1040, 1975.
  • John Duncan Martin Derrett: Nathaniel Brassey Halhed, his association with Joanna Southcott; Poona (India): B.O.R. Institute, 1979.
  • James K. Hopkins: A woman to deliver her people. Joanna Southcott and English millenarianism in an era of revolution; Austin: University of Texas Press, 1981; ISBN 0-292-79017-1
  • John Duncan Martin: Prophecy in the Cotswolds 1803-1947. Joanna Southcott and spiritual reform; Shipston -on- Stour: P.I. Drink Water on behalf of the Blockley Antiquarian Society, 1994.
  • Val Lewis: Satan's mistress, the extraordinary story of the 18th century fanatic Joanna Southcott and her lifelong battle with the Devil; Shepperton: Nauticalia, 1997; ISBN 0-9530458-0-3
  • Susan Juster: Mystical pregnancy and holy bleeding, visionary experience in early modern Britain and America; in: The William and Mary Quarterly. Third Series, Volume 57, Issue 2, 2000.
  • Frances Brown: Joanna Southcott, the woman clothed with the sun; Cambridge: Lutterworth, 2002; ISBN 0-7188-3018-0
  • Frances Brown: Joanna Southcott 's box of sealed prophecies; Cambridge: The Lutterworth Press, 2003; ISBN 0-7188-3041-5
  • G. H. Wilson, Wonderful characters, 1830
  • J. A: Gorton, A general biographical dictionary, 1841
  • S. Baring - Gould, Devonshire, character and strange events in 1908
  • J. Todd, Dictionary of British Women Writers, 1989
  • J. Shattock, The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers, 1993
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