Spiritualism and Authorship in the Writings of Pearl Curran
by
Daniel B. Shea
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
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...