Southcott, Joanna

Bowerbank, Lead , ODNB see also, Sylvia Bowerbank, Southcott, Joanna (1750-1814) , ODNB. 

Joanna Southcott (1750-1814) was, like Jane Lead, an English female prophet whose religious experiences secured her notice, influence, and adherents beyond the gendered cultural norms of her day. Southcott claimed to receive revelations in dreams and through hearing a divine... 

Scholarly links between Jane Lead and Joanna Southcott have been drawn before.Most commonly the two are twinned as fellow women of revelation within the English religious culture of the long eighteenth... 

Continuing in the same line of argument, Philadelphus explicidy linked the figure of Eve returned with Southcott Adam has, in the latter part of the sixth chiliad or day, been born of Eve, who is now called Joanna ... ... 

Therefore I humbly conceive, that the child born of Joanna Southcott, is Adam returned and that he will prove to be the angel John saw with a great chain, who actually shall command Satan to withdraw from this earth, and will also have power to chain him down to the bottomless pit, and there to remain till the thousand years are expired. .. the Millennium. ... 

What is woman s mission in this age, and more especially has [sic] Joanna Southcott and Jane Lead. .. given a key to [it], in the purity of the woman crushing the head of the serpent, by living up to the Levitical law, or to the transcendental idea ... 

James Hopkins, A Woman to Deliver Her People Joanna Southcott and English Milknarianism in an Era of Revolution (Austin University of Texas Press, 1982), p. 84. 

There is notable new evidence that Southcott was familiar with Richard Brothers writings before 1801. See especially. Panacea Society Archive, Bedford, PN 222/55, Communication given to Joanna Southcott shewing the reason why the Lord chose Richard Brothers (18 May 1798). 

Revelation 12 1-5. Joanna Southcott, The Third Book of Wonders, Announcing the Coming of Shiloh (London, 1814). 

University of Texas (UT), Harry Ransom Research Center (HRC), Joanna Southcott Collection (JSC), Box 11/1/18. Clark was almost certainly copying from the 1696 original, as his writing reproduces the capitals of the original, and not the 1816 reprint which includes this passage. Lead, Fountain of Gardens, pp. 468-71. 

Israelite House of David and Mary s City of David, in contrast to Michael Mills who did not leave a significant print legacy. Similar to James Jershom Jezreel, Joanna Southcott, and of course the Purnells themselves, Lead s... 

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