Originally published in 1976 as Anne the Word, this is a popular biography of colorful and controversial Shaker founder Ann Lee.

This first serious biography of the leader of the Shaking Quakers, a religious cult known for erratic fits of divine shaking, passionate song and dance and spea

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the publi

A biography of the woman who founded the Shaker religious sect in England, where persecution became so intense that she and her followers migrated to America.

Introduction, birth, parentage, religious exercises and sufferings of Ann Lee; her revelation and testimony; voyage to America -- Mother's experience and suffer