Joanna Southcott, an extraordinary fanatic, 1750-1814. Domestic servant of Devon who became a prophetess and leader of the Southcottian cult from 1792. In 1813, she claimed that she was pregnant with a messiah, the Shiloh. Lithograph after a stipple engraving by Robert Cooper from Henry Wilson and James Caulfields Book of Wonderful Characters, Memoirs and Anecdotes, of Remarkable and Eccentric Persons in all ages and countries, John Camden Hotten, Piccadilly, London, 1869.
Joanna Southcott, an extraordinary fanatic, 1750-1814. Domestic servant of Devon who became a prophetess and leader of the Southcottian cult from 1792. In 1813, she claimed that she was pregnant with a messiah, the Shiloh. Lithograph after a stipple engraving by Robert Cooper from Henry Wilson and James Caulfields Book of Wonderful Characters, Memoirs and Anecdotes, of Remarkable and Eccentric Persons in all ages and countries, John Camden Hotten, Piccadilly, London, 1869.