Ann Eagles (1734-

Item

Title
Ann Eagles (1734-
Publisher
Moravian Lives Project
Format
image/pdf
Description
Biographical memoir of Single Sister Ann Eagles. Orphaned in early childhood, she suffered severe operational hardships in domestic service throughout Oxfordshire until an open-air sermon by Brother Gussenbauer at Culworth prompted her spiritual awakening at age sixteen. The text chronicles her move to Northampton to serve Brother and Sister Ager, her introduction to the Moravian community, and her formal reception into the Bedford congregation in 1756. It details her intense longing to reside within the definitive Single Sisters' Choir House, her isolation in Northampton during a regional smallpox epidemic, and her rapid death from the disease under the bedside care and vocal hymnody of Sister Lorel in June.
Subject
Eagles, Ann, 1734-?
Moravians--Biography
Women--England--History--18th century
Household employees--England--History--18th century
Smallpox--History--18th century
Women--Biographies
Biographies
Identifier
Ful/SS/47
Language
eng
Extent
2 pages
Rights Holder
Fulneck Moravian Archives, Fulneck, UK
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Ann Eagles (1734-