lee, ann

Traces the life of Ann Lee who led her followers across the sea to a new life of simplicity and celibacy as Shakers.

A biography of the woman who founded the Shaker religious sect in England, where persecution became so intense that she and her followers migrated to America.

Chronicles the life of religious leader Ann Lee, discussing her childhood in Manchester, England, her marriage, the deaths of her four children, her commitment to a lunatic ward, and her belief that she was the second incarnation of Christ.