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Seven Years of Grace : The Inspired Mission of Achsa W. Sprague by Sara Rath (2016, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Wisconsin Press
ISBN-100934720665
ISBN-139780934720663
eBay Product ID (ePID)219097665
Product Key Features
Book TitleSeven Years of Grace : the Inspired Mission of Achsa W. Sprague
Number of Pages278 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicBiographical, Historical
Publication Year2016
IllustratorYes
GenreFiction
AuthorSara Rath
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight26.4 Oz
Item Length8.9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2018-013077
Dewey Edition23
Reviews"A wonderful historical novel. Sara Rath has deeply researched the small but highly influential number of itinerant woman lecturers during the mid-nineteenth century, and she has found a brilliant way to tell Achsa Sprague's story."--John B. Buescher, author of The Other Side of Salvation: Spiritualism and the Nineteenth-Century Religious Experience, "Impeccably researched. . . . Fans of antebellum America and the spiritualism craze shouldn't miss this one."-- Historical Novels Review
Dewey Decimal813/.54
Table Of ContentIntroduction 1 Part One: (1827 - 1856) Weary Wanderer To Suffer and Be Strong Thoughts of a Long-tried Heart Passing Strange Slave or Butterfly The Day of Small Things Part Two: (1856- 1859) Floating on the Billows A Convention of Moral Lunatics All the World Should Run Nightly Mad At Darling's Gap Songs Without Words The Heart's Dream Home Again Darkeyed Lass Part Three: (1860- 1862) Misanthrope Birds of Passage No Unholy Kiss Angry and Sorry By Turns My Burning Thought Leaps Up Like Some Bright Evening Star Afterword Author's Notes Acknowledgments
SynopsisA well-researched historical novel about Achsa Sprague (1827-1862), a Vermont woman and itinerant medium who gave popular lectures on Spiritualism, the abolition of slavery, women's rights, and prison reform., In November 1852, a shy and sickly young spinster in Plymouth Notch, Vermont, glimpses a blinding rush of angel wings. Restored to health and given an urgent mission by these guardians, she embraces the Spiritualist movement and embarks on a seven-year crusade across America. Though publicly rejecting the doctrine of Free Love embraced by many Spiritualists, she secretly struggles against the growing love she feels for the married man she calls her "Evil Genius." Seven Years of Grace is a dramatized account of the life of Achsa Sprague (1827-1862), who in the decade preceding the American Civil War lectured to audiences of thousands on Spiritualism, the abolition of slavery, women's rights, and prison reform. She presented herself as a medium, lecturing and singing hymns in a state of trance. Alone on stage, she drew acclaim and admiration but also jeers, ridicule, and condemnation. A skeptic in Oswego, New York, asked, "Why is it that all the world should run nightly mad to hear her in a pretended trance?" A Milwaukee newspaper proclaimed her words "profound twaddle from beginning to end." Yet Achsa's crowds continued to grow in size and enthusiasm. Grounded in the extensive collection of Achsa Sprague's papers at the Vermont Historical Society, Seven Years of Grace is both a fascinating tale and a revealing window into the past., In November 1852, a shy and sickly young spinster in Plymouth Notch, Vermont, glimpses a blinding rush of angel wings. Restored to health and given an urgent mission by these guardians, she embraces the Spiritualist movement and embarks on a seven-year crusade across America. Though publicly rejecting the doctrine of Free Love embraced by many Spiritualists, she secretly struggles against the growing love she feels for the married man she calls her Evil Genius. Seven Years of Grace is a dramatized account of the life of Achsa Sprague (1827 1862), who in the decade preceding the American Civil War lectured to audiences of thousands on Spiritualism, the abolition of slavery, women s rights, and prison reform. She presented herself as a medium, lecturing and singing hymns in a state of trance. Alone on stage, she drew acclaim and admiration but also jeers, ridicule, and condemnation. A skeptic in Oswego, New York, asked, Why is it that all the world should run nightly mad to hear her in a pretended trance? A Milwaukee newspaper proclaimed her words profound twaddle from beginning to end. Yet Achsa s crowds continued to grow in size and enthusiasm. Grounded in the extensive collection of Achsa Sprague s papers at the Vermont Historical Society, Seven Years of Grace is both a fascinating tale and a revealing window into the past."
LC Classification NumberPS3568.A718S49 2016
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