Bathurst , Anne

Bathurst R.G.C. (1974) Marine diagenesis of shallow water calcium carbonate sediments. Ann. Rev. Earth and Planet. Sci. 2, 257-274. 

Richard Roach, The Great Crisis (London N. Blandford, 1725), p. 99 Bodl., MS Rawlinson D 1262, p. 15, quoted in S. Apetrei, Mystical divinity in the manuscript writings of Jane Lead and Anne Bathurst (this... 

Mystical Divinity in the Manuscript Writings of Jane Lead and Anne Bathurst... 

Like Lead s, Anne Bathurst s diary attests to an ambivalence about recording her ecstasies by means of the written word, though as Julie Hirst has argued she clearly made the connection between the act of writing and divine inspiration . She can express her experience only under considerable pressure, and it is a form of expression that is at odds with worldly communication. Like Lead, her writing is deeply self-referential, interpreting itself continually. Bathurst describes writing as the outcome of the mystical process of self-annihilation, and a kind of intoxication which, in her words ... 

The self-consciously artless and possessed quality of the visions of Jane Lead and Anne Bathurst links them to the mystical discourse of medieval women, which opposed corrupted, worldly Reason with Virgin Wisdom, divinely apprehended. However, as representatives of this sacred innocence they were faced with the fresh difficulty of participating in the public sphere could the printed prophetic word, exposed to the world, be truly chaste Lead and Bathurst, under the more or less controlling guidance of their male mentors, adopted different attitudes to publication, while sharing a vocation as spiritual writers. As a result, Bathurst, who felt compelled to attend to my Inward Teachings, and not to Look out after National Concerns, or the publick affairs of the world , has been more or less obscure until rediscovered in the twentieth century, while Lead... 

See JuKe Hirst, If my pen s liquor is to be firom Eternity, it cannot be written dry Anne Bathurst, a Seventeenth-Century Visionary , in Katherine Quinsey ed.. Under the Veil Feminism and Spirituality in Post-Reformation England and Europe (Newcastle Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012), p. 15. 

If Hoxton was the mother group and public face of the Society, the houses of Anne Bathurst and Joanna Oxenbridge in Baldwin s Gardens remained the most dynamic, albeit private, nodes. Philadelphians assembled separately thereafter, but continued to communicate. Efforts were repeatedly made on both sides to reconcile the Society into united assemblies, especially after the death of Dr Murray, which was perceived as a Lamb of sacrifice for ye Division Contentions of those among whom he stood in a peaceful reconciling Spirit . Roach seemed particularly concerned about unity and reconciliation, and portrayed himself as the middle man between the remaining Philadelphian branches. He offered with Lee s support to leave aside contentious issues to concentrate instead on the fraternal beliefs and values shared by all. His efforts, however, did not pay off. 

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