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    THE CHUBCH OF THE WOMAN. 267

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    About Sidered Themselves Half A Century ...

    looked while ordinary the at dimensions the distended poor prop frame All hetess were had , but at in they once amazement looked collapsed onl at y , on the and a sudden corpse was of _,

    exactl death y and as the at the clock speed . struck y change four , on . Tuesday Joanna , Southcott December 2 died 7 th , ,

    1814 at the residence of her friend and patroness , Mrs . Townley , 38 , Outside Manchester , the house St ., Manchester the assembled Sq . crowd were impatient to

    hear the resultand when the news of her death was conveyed to themtheir , tumult increased . They declared that she had

    report been poisoned , avowed , , his and intention the Coron of er of holding having her death 1 been an inquest informed had upon of the the

    arranged body . and Joanna that her there , brother in should the event ermitted be a , post her mortem wish examination to , be carrie previousl d of into her y p

    effect corpse , to show that her body had no signs either of disease , or hi of gh childbirth , repute , . were Twenty present -three at medical the that tim there e men of , the many dissection si of of them , and of

    fourteen nan seventeen cy . To of of these prevent these seven pronoun the p unnecessary hysicians ced and trouble seven were surgeons of gns an inquest , si preg gned - ,

    Joanna a certificate Southcott to and the , they effect certified , that , , being " that pre no sent un symptom na at tural the dissection appearances of disease of

    sufficient were visible to , have no occasioned part exhibiting her death any . " The Southcottian interpretation of this from is , thence that both chil to d and return mother at were appointed caught

    into heaven again an outside time up in power the house and , g the lory resul . The t of impatience the dissection of the cro became wd awaiting every

    increasing moment greater uproar , ; and at leng for th some the followers hours the of street Joanna , was who in had an retreat

    himself pursued _Tbeen present gained by torrents at his the home of inquest abus with e , mud made much and an difficul , missiles ignominious ty . escap Mr . ing Ingall by ,

    length turnings he and obtained bye-ways a , public pelted vehicl by the e mob in whi with ch , mud to hide , till his at

    , bespatt The remains ered garments of Joanna . Southcott were interred at a late hour diedShe

    buried during in the the nig then ht of new the burial day on ground which of she Marylebone . parish was , laced

    near the Regent ' s Park . A plain stone has been pover her expressive grave , of which the faith bears of the her following followers inscri _, and ption equal and in verses poetic ,

    merit to her own doggrel rhymes : —

    The Chubch Of The Woman. 267

    THE CHUBCH OF THE WOMAN . 267

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1864, page 267, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061864/page/51/