Pious Words from a Young Quaker Woman on Her Deathbed
Some Expressions of Ann Crowley, Daughter of Thomas and Mary Crowley, of London, During her Last Illness, from the 23d of the First Month 1773, to the 12th of the Second Month 1774. With an Introductory Testimony Concerning Her, from the Family … the Fourth Edition.
Norwich, [Conn.]: Printed by John Trumbull; for Henry Spencer at East-Greenwich, in Rhode-Island, 1776.
Price: $750.00
About the item
Second American edition. ix, 10-20 pp. 12mo. Pious Words from a Young Quaker Woman on Her Deathbed. Original stitched wrappers. Pages toned and edge-worn, some light staining. Early ownership marks to wrappers. ESTC W3491; Evans 14722; cf. Kaczynski, Perdurabo: The Life of Aleister Crowley (2010).
Item #303801
The pious deathbed utterances of a young London Quaker woman, Ann Crowley, who died before her 17th birthday following a year-long illness. Her father Thomas Crowley (c. 1713-1787) was religious polemicist and poet who published some thirty works, many of them critical of his Quaker faith. Crowley was the great-great-grandfather of Aleister Crowley.
This Norwich, Connecticut, printing is the second American edition, following the Burlington, NJ, edition of 1775. The American editions were preceded by two London editions of 1774, printed by Mary Hinde.
An attractive copy in original stitched wrappers of a rare printing — OCLC locates just three copies
"In the night her pains were exceeding great, and she felt the near approach of death; the nurse asked her 'if she should call any of the family;" she replied, 'Thou maybe tell them all the that the pains of death are upon me.'
She uttered the following expressions: 'O it's hard work! -- the pains of death are hard to bear ---Father! take me ---O father! thy kingdom is dear ---O father! take me to thyself --- I shall reap the fruits of my labors ---my soul will be in heaven this night, --Sweet Jesus take me quickly ---sweeten the bitter cup I pray thee, O Lord! ---It is hard work to die"
