The Patience of Pearl, 1: Spiritualism and Authorship in the Writings of Pearl Curran

By Daniel B. Shea

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.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826219896
• ISBN13: 9780826219893
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: University of Missouri Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.4"
• Age Range: 18 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Postsecondary to Grade 5