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Panacea Society: Centenary marks arrival of 'prophet's cradle'

BBC
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.
6 months ago

Joanna Southcott

Perspective Magazine
The story of Joanna Southcott, the eighteenth-century Devon prophetess, might look like a risible fraud. It involves conveniently illegible prophecies, quack...
8 months ago

Thomas Rowlandson | A Medical Inspection or Miracles Will Never Cease

The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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...
78 months ago

Ghosts of Landed Gentry, But Never the Ghosts of Serfs

JSTOR Daily
Psychical researcher Harry Price combined the power of academic language with a cultural identity crisis to build a reputation as a...
25 months ago

Heretic of the week: Joanna Southcott

Catholic Herald
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.
65 months ago

Many have predicted the End Times

Connecticut Post
The Jehovah's Witnesses, then called Zion's Watch Tower Tract Society, believe that the...
162 months ago

The town that predicted the world’s end

BBC
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...
94 months ago

The woman who said Jesus would return - to Bedford

BBC
Two centuries ago, a 64-year-old woman called Joanna Southcott announced she was pregnant with the Messiah. She died in December 1814,...
60 months ago

Karl Marx on Film

4Columns
A series explores the revolutionary thinker. News from Ideological Antiquity: Marx–Eisenstein–Capital. Image courtesy Alexander Kluge.
78 months ago

Hair Lair: On the Harry Ransom Center’s Lot of Locks

The Alcalde
Ezra Pound's hair, which would later grow as dark as his fascist views, is thick and blond, collected from his innocent, 4-year-old head.
81 months ago