England's Lost Eden: Adventures in a Victorian Utopia by Philip Hoare

England's Lost Eden: Adventures in a Victorian Utopia

Philip Hoare

560 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction history religion dark informative slow-paced
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In 1872 there was a bizarre eruption of religious mania in Hampshire's New Forest. Its leader was Mary Ann Girling, who claimed to be the female Christ and whose sect, the Children of God, lived in imminent anticipation of the Millennium. Through ...

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