The patience of Pearl : spiritualism and authorship in the writings of Pearl Curran / Daniel B. Shea.

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"When St. Louis homemaker Pearl Curran began writing fiction and poetry at a Ouija board in 1913, she attributed the work to the discarnate entity Patience Worth, a seventeenth-century Puritan. Though now virtually forgotten, her writing garnered both critical praise and public popularity at the tim...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shea, Daniel B. (Daniel Bartholomew)
Language:English
Published: Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press, [2012], ©2012.
Subjects:
Curran, Pearl Lenore Pollard, > 1883-1937.
Worth, Patience > (Spirit)
Spiritualists > Missouri > Saint Louis > Biography.
Spirit writings.
Spiritualism.
Genre:
Biography.
Physical Description:viii, 283 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Variant Title:
Spiritualism and authorship in the writings of Pearl Curran.
Writings of Pearl Curran.
Format: Book

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