Mother Ann Lee: Morning Star of the Shakers

Originally published in 1976 as Anne the Word, this is a popular biography of colorful and controversial Shaker founder Ann Lee

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Mother Ann Lee: Morning Star of the Shakers

Originally published in 1976 as Anne the Word, this is a popular biography of colorful and controversial Shaker founder Ann Lee

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Mother Ann Lee: Morning Star of the Shakers

Mother Ann Lee: Morning Star of the Shakers

Mother Ann Lee: Morning Star of the Shakers

Mother Ann Lee: Morning Star of the Shakers

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Overview

Originally published in 1976 as Anne the Word, this is a popular biography of colorful and controversial Shaker founder Ann Lee


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780874515275
Publisher: University Press of New England
Publication date: 09/01/1990
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 205
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range: 14 - 15 Years

About the Author

NARDI REEDER CAMPION was the author of eight other books, including a memoir, Everyday Matters: A Love Story (forward by Hillary Rodham Clinton), and Bringing Up the Brass by Sergeant Marty Maher with Colonel Red Reeder (the basis for the film The Long Gray Line). She has written for such publications as the New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, American Heritage, Family Circle, Gourmet, Boston Globe Magazine, Life, Sports Illustrated, and Yankee. JUNE SPRIGG, Curator of Collections at Hancock Shaker Village, is the author of several books and many articles on the Shakers.

Table of Contents

Foreword by June Sprigg
Preface: A Pioneer of the Spirit
Author’s Note
Ann Lee of Toad Lane
Marriage and Misery
She-Preachers
A Woman Clothed with the Sun
The Female Christ
The New World
Escape to the Wilderness
“Good Woman”
We Do Not Lose Heart
Celibacy and Separation of the Sexes
Mother Ann, Spy
Enemies
More Love, Sister! More Love, Brother!
Is She Really a Woman?
The Death of Mother Ann
Epilogue: Shakerism after Mother Ann
List of Shaker Museums
Bibliography
Index
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