Pioneer Prophetess: Jemima Wilkinson, the Publick Universal FriendAt the age of twenty-four, the Rhode Island Quaker Jemima Wilkinson (1752-1819) recovered from a bout of fever with the pronouncement that she had been directed by a vision to preach to a "dying and sinful world." Announcing that Jemima had died and that her body now housed a new spirit, the Publick Universal Friend, this remarkably charismatic--and notably scandal-plagued--woman gathered several hundred followers and settled to the west of Seneca Lake. Although the religious community she founded on a framework of abstinence and friendship did not long survive her, Wilkinson remains a figure of fascination and mystery to this day. Herbert A. Wisbey Jr.'s 1964 biography is the authoritative account of her life, times, and ideals. |
Contents
Birth of a Prophetess I | 1 |
Saith the Universal Friend | 17 |
Refuge in Little Rest | 39 |
New England Ministry | 57 |
of Universal Friends | 187 |
The Universal Friends | 197 |
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