Joanna Southcott
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A dispute between the woman and the powers of darkness, 1802
In 1792, when she was 42, Joanna Southcott began writing down her prophecies, sealing them against the day they were to occur. In 1801 her publications began to appear, written in a combination of prose - sometimes plain, sometimes incantatory - and primitive verse. This pamphlet of 1802 is a sample of the flood of writings which she poured forth until her death in 1814. Joanna is visited by Satan, or Apollyon, or a Friend of Satan, and disputes with him; she triumphs; she recounts her dreams of a flying horseman, a balloon, fires in the sky. A farmer's daughter and one-time servant, she is a descendant of Bunyan in the period of Blake. Unlike Blake she reaches a wide audience, speaking most directly to the poor and to women. Visionary, deluded, or mad, she was the object of veneration and focus of a large and devoted cult.
Wisdom excelleth the weapons of war, and herein is shewn that judgments are the strange works of the Lord, but mercy His darling attribute
A continuation of the controversy with the worldly wise
A continuation of Southcott's defensive response to R. Hann's writings about her.
From this publication the readers may discern what is hastening upon the land
Copies of letters sent to the clergy of Exeter from 1796 to 1800, with communications and prophecies put in the newspapers in 1813
The controversy of the spirit with the worldly wise
A defensive response to R. Hann's writings on Southcott.