The Patience of Pearl: Spiritualism and Authorship in the Writings of Pearl Curran by Daniel B. Shea

Patience Worth was allegedly a spirit contacted by Pearl Lenore Curran. When St. Louis homemaker Pearl Curran began writing fiction and poetry at a Ouija board in 1913, she attributed the work to the "discarnate entity" Patience Worth, a seventeenth-century Puritan.

Through Pearl, Patience claimed to be an unmarried Englishwoman who had emigrated to Nantucket Island in the late 1600s. For three centuries, she said, she’d searched for an earthly person to help her fulfill a burning literary ambition. She’d found it at last in Pearl. This symbiotic relationship produced several novels, poetry and prose which Pearl Curran claimed were delivered to her through channeling the spirit of Patience Worth.

Pearl Curran is featured on page 58 of Groundbreakers, Rule-Breakers and Rebels by Katie Moon.

Hardbound | 296 pages