Letters From Angel-Land. Illustrated By Scott Calder [Together With] Shaw, Jane. Octavia, Daughter of God: the Story of a Female Messiah and Her Followers
by Ignatia & Candida [Pseudonyms]. Panacea Society
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First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. Small 4to. pp. 101. Coloured frontispiece and one coloured illustration. Further illustrations and musical examples in the text. Original publisher's pale pink cloth-backed illustrated boards. A book aimed at introducing children to the beliefs of the Panacea Society. Includes references to William Blake and Joseph of Arimathea. Joanna Southcott, the prophetess, was expected to give birth to the Messiah but died in 1814 with no evidence of a child. In 1919, followers thought that a spiritual child had been born and immediately taken up to heaven and that the incarnation of that child was Mabel Barltrop who was a 53-year-old vicar's widow, better known to her devotees as Octavia. Based in Bedford she declared herself to be the Daughter of God. The Panacea Society was very much a product of the New Age movement as it was at the turn of the century. Frontispiece loose, boards rubbed at edges, lower board a little stained. Together with: SHAW, Jane. Octavia, Daughter of God: The Story of a Female Messiah and her Followers. London, Jonathan Cape, 2011. First edition. 8vo. pp. xviii, 398. 16pp. illustrations. Original publisher's black cloth lettered gilt on spine. Unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Ownership inscription on front free-endpaper, closed tear to dust-jacket on spine. VG. 9780224075008 Very good with some light wear.