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Mother Ann Lee

Morning Star of the Shakers

With a Foreword by June Sprigg

180 pages | 5 halftones, 1 map | 5.5 x 8.5 | © 2026

Biography and Letters

Religion: Christianity

Women's Studies:


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Table of Contents

Foreword by June Sprigg
Preface: A Pioneer of the Spirit
Author’s Note
Ann Lee of Toad Lane
Marriage and Misery
She-Preachers
A Woman Clothed with the Sun
The Female Christ
The New World
Escape to the Wilderness
“Good Woman”
We Do Not Lose Heart
Celibacy and Separation of the Sexes
Mother Ann, Spy
Enemies
More Love, Sister! More Love, Brother!
Is She Really a Woman?
The Death of Mother Ann
Epilogue: Shakerism after Mother Ann
List of Shaker Museums
Bibliography
Index

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