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JEAN M. HUMEZ is Associate Professor of Women's Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. She is the editor of Gifts of Power: The Writings of Rebecca Jackson, Black Visionary, Shaker Eldress.
Foreword | |
Acknowledgments | |
A Note on Manuscript Sources and Abbreviations | |
General Introduction | |
"A Mother in Divinity": Ann Lee Imagery and Narrative, 1808-1851 | p. 1 |
Healing Stories by Women (1808) | p. 13 |
Testimonies of Ann Lee's Followers (1816) | p. 14 |
Ann Lee's Own Personal Experience Narratives, as Remembered by Her Followers (1816) | p. 29 |
Narrative of the Journey through New England (1816) | p. 38 |
Women's Testimonies in Defense of Ann Lee (1827) | p. 44 |
Jemima Blanchard's Stories as Recalled by Roxalana Grosvenor (1836) | p. 56 |
Elizabeth Wood's Testimony (1851) | p. 58 |
"Your Parent in the Gospel": The Sayings and Correspondence of Lucy Wright | p. 64 |
Words Spoken by Mother Lucy ... March 25th, 1815 | p. 82 |
Accounts of Two Visits with Mother Lucy Wright | p. 85 |
Sayings of Mother Lucy at Watervliet (1816) | p. 86 |
Sayings of Mother Lucy from Eldress Betsy Harrison's Book | p. 89 |
Counsel and Instruction Given by Mother Lucy... | p. 93 |
Mother Lucy's Last Visit to Watervliet | p. 94 |
Selected Correspondence | p. 99 |
"Poor Child in a Distant Land": Selected Correspondence of Shaker Sisters, West and East, 1805-1835 | p. 133 |
Selected Correspondence | p. 145 |
"The Heavens Are Open": Women's Perspectives on Midcentury Spiritualism | p. 209 |
The Onset of the Revival (Watervliet Church Family Meeting Journal, 1838-1840) | p. 230 |
A Visionary Dream Concerning Ann Eliza Goodwin (1840) | p. 238 |
Mother Lucy's Word to the Sisters (1841) | p. 239 |
Visits from Alien Spirits at Watervliet (Church Family Meeting Journal, 1842-1843) | p. 243 |
The Hancock Sweeping Gift (1843) | p. 248 |
Hancock Mountain Meeting (1843) | p. 250 |
Holy Mother Wisdom's Fold (n.d.) | p. 255 |
Paulina Bates's Divine Book of Holy and Eternal Wisdom (1849) | p. 258 |
Mary Hazard's "Precious Crumbs of Heavenly Food..." (1839-1842) | p. 267 |
New Year's Verses for the New Lebanon Sisters (1846) | p. 270 |
A Selective Bibliography of Published Sources | p. 273 |
Index | p. 283 |
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