Displaying 1 of 1 1976 Format: Book Author: Campion, Nardi Reeder. Title: Ann the Word : the life of Mother Ann Lee, founder of the Shakers / Nardi Reeder Campion. Edition: First edition. Publisher, Date: Boston : Little, Brown, [1976] ©1976 Description: xiv, 208 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm illustration Subjects: Lee, Ann, 1736-1784. Shakers -- History. High interest-low vocabulary books. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-200) and index. LCCN: 76006568 ISBN: 0316127671 Other Number: 2089583 System Availability: 1 # System items in: 1 # Local items: 1 # Local items in: 1 Current Holds: 0 Place Request Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Trade Reviews Kirkus ReviewThe spiritual odyssey of Mother Ann Lee from illiterate factory girl to founder of Shakerism has been sketched in other books on American communal religion, but Campion's sensible sympathy and evident research justify this more leisurely study By any standards Mother Ann was a powerful personality--her converts, who accepted her as the ""female Christ,"" began with her whole family and included two of the best educated ministers in New York State. Campion sees Mother Ann as a pioneering feminist and an instinctive psychologist who developed her own techniques for using confession to relieve guilt. But she leaves room for conflicting perspectives: celibacy was a radical and effective equalizer of the sexes in Shaker communities, but it brought the ruination of Mother Ann's worldly blacksmith husband who tried, devotedly, to follow his wife's leadership. Mother Ann's prophecies and Shaker hymns are joyous, but outside observers differed wildly in their reactions to Shakerism--Lafayette was an admirer, Hawthorne called it escapist. This uncondescending but open narrative (Campion stops for definitions and chronological background) helps us to know the whole woman. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission. Librarian's View Syndetics Unbound Displaying 1 of 1
