Patience Worth is an examination of the communications between a seventeenth century woman and a certain Mrs. Curran of St. Louis, in 1913. Contact with the spirit world or parlor trick? If the latter, it was well done: the quick-witted repartee appeared unrehearsed, the language was authentic, the references to English nature and life accurate, although Mrs. Curran had never visited England. Mrs. Curran, herself, was a smart, quick-witted socialite of good repute, unlikely to have been a ...

this book is not a spiritualist, nor a psychologist, nor a member of the Society for Psychical Research; nor has he ever had anything more than a transitory and skeptical interest in psychic phenomena of any character. He is a newspaper man whose privilege and pleasure it is to present the facts in relation to some phenomena which he does not attempt to classify nor to explain, but which are virtually without precedent in the record of occult manifestations. The mystery of Patience Worth i...

Lord Byron - She Walks in Beauty 2. Christina Rossetti - I Loved You First: But Afterwards Your Love 3. Walt Whitman - A Glimpse 4. W.Shakespeare - Let Me Not To The Marriage Of True Minds 5. John Donne - The Good-Morrow 6. K.Gibran - Love One Another 7. Robert Browning - Meeting At Night 8. E.Dickinson - My River 9. P.B. Shelley - Love's Philosophy 10. Alfred Tennyson - Maud 11. E.A. Poe - Annabel Lee 12. J.Keats - Bright Star 13. Andrew Marvell - To His Coy Mistress 14. E.A. Poe - ...

Patience Worth: A Psychic Mystery is a book by Casper S. Yost. Patience Worth was purportedly a spirit contacted by Pearl Lenore Curran. Together they produced several novels, poetry and prose through channeling.

In "Patience Worth: A Psychic Mystery," Casper S. Yost embarks on a riveting exploration of spiritualism and the complexities of the human psyche. Drawing upon a unique blend of narrative style that interweaves poetic prose with detailed documentation of psychic phenomena, Yost investigates the enigmatic figure of Patience Worth, a purported spirit communicating through a medium in the early twentieth century. The book not only chronicles Yost's interactions with this mysterious entity but...

In the book, Yost describes how Pearl Curran, who had no formal literary training, began to receive and transcribe highly sophisticated poetry, novels, and philosophical works allegedly dictated by the spirit of Patience Worth, a 17th-century Englishwoman. The phenomena fascinated both skeptics and believers, leading to public debates about the nature of consciousness, creativity, and the supernatural. Yost remains objective, providing detailed transcripts of these sessions and examining t...

ON a July evening in 1913 two women of St. Louis sat with a Ouija board upon their knees. The result of what was to come has remained one of the biggest mysteries in literary history and a key event in psychical research to this day.Spiritualism was still popular in certain circles and with World War I just over the brow of the hill, many families would soon want to connect with deceased love ones, and the Ouija board seemed an easy way to do this.The women is question were Mrs. John H. Cu...

The women referred to are Mrs. John H. Curran, wife of the former Immigration Commissioner of Missouri, and Mrs. Emily Grant Hutchings, wife of the Secretary of the Tower Grove Park Board in St. Louis, both ladies of culture and refinement. Mrs. Curran is a young woman of nervous temperament, bright, vivacious, ready of speech. She has a taste for literature, but is not a writer, and has never attempted to write anything more ambitious than a personal letter. Mrs. Hutchings, on the other h...

If a picture speaks a thousand words, a love letter or a poem speaks a thousand more... Even in this age of e-mail, faxes, and instant messaging, nothing has ever replaced the power of a love letter or that of a poem. LIST OF POEMS: 1. Lord Byron - She Walks in Beauty 2. Christina Rossetti - I Loved You First: But Afterwards Your Love 3. Walt Whitman - A Glimpse 4. W.Shakespeare - Let Me Not To The Marriage Of True Minds 5. John Donne - The Good-Morrow 6. K.Gibran - Love One Another 7. Rob...

Worth the Wait invites toddlers to notice small moments of waiting in their day-like for cookies to bake or for a parent to come home. With soothing rhythms and simple, familiar scenes, this book encourages children to pause, breathe, and recognize that some of the best things take time.Developing the ability to delay gratification is one of the strongest predictors of long-term financial success. When kids learn to be patient, they are better equipped to ...

Have you ever wondered what happens to your consciousness after your body dies? Probably most people wonder about that at some time. Most religions try to answer that question with various heavenly scenarios or hellish punishments and wars have been fought and people painfully put to death because of disagreements about religious beliefs and dogmas. Pearl Curran believed that she had made contact with the consciousness of a young woman, “Patience Worth” who had lived and died in the 17th c...

When the CALL THE MIDWIFE series became bestsellers Jennifer Worth received mountains of letters - not only praising her books, but also from people who remembered the world her books described; life in the east end of London during the late 1940s and early 50s. Often her books touched her readers and they felt moved to write, or they wanted to share their own memories. A prolific letter writer herself, Jennifer always corresponded and this book includes some fascinating letters she receiv...