Philadelphian Society

Richard Roach became the leader of the Philadelphian Society after her death. As time went by and women's equal participation in such movements became less usual, Roach laid increasing emphasis on gender equality.

AC 's work was of particular interest to the Philadelphian Society associated with Jane Lead . It is now believed to have influenced Leibnitz (who owned and annotated a copy of her treatise), and through...

Theosophical Transactions, the journal of Jane Lead 's Philadelphian Society , warmly praised MA 's work and published extracts from it. Damaris Masham , however (who was herself guessed by some to be the...

The Tatler ridiculed JL 's Philadelphian Society and its mixed-sex membership in number 257, which targets the sects in general.

JL 's Philadelphian Society , finding that publication was making them known, embarked on a programme of deliberate expansion and publicising.

JL now became the spiritual leader of an illegal nonconformist sect. The rest of her life was rendered comfortable by her followers. She began to hold at her house informal meetings of a group...

The first five numbers appeared of Theosophical Transactions, the Philadelphian Society 's journal: not a work of JL 's but a journal intimately connected with her writings.

Richard Roach 's verse preface to the first volume called JL a divine heroine or celestial Amazon. This was the most widely read and debated of all her works, often discussed in the pages...

She said she wrote for all Ranks, Orders, and Degrees of Persons, from the highest to the lowest. Her language is direct, but visually and imaginatively vivid, marked with the rhythms of...

JL 's three volumes of her Message to the Philadelphian Society were published.

Published by the Philadelphian Society and financed by an unnamed donor, it appeared in three volumes (the second following the same year, the last in two parts, published in 1700 and 1701), all sharing the...

The Philadelphian Society valued women's spiritual experience and visions very highly. Its publications included that of JL 's diary, as A Fountain of Gardens.