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Title
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Mary Ann Foster (1784-1789)
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Publisher
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Moravian Lives Project
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Date
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1829
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Type
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Text
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Format
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image/pdf
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Description
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Biographical narrative and spiritual sketch of Mary Ann Foster, a child who frequented the Moravian Children's Meetings in Bristol and died at four and a half years old. The text captures a highly detailed example of Moravian childhood piety and the early internalizing of liturgy surrounding salvation, Christ's wounds, and a serene view of mortality. It documents her reactions to the funeral of her contemporary Maria Grinfield, her spiritual warning to a family servant, her premonition of her own death over an intended move to a school in London, and her explicit deathbed requests regarding a white Moravian choir-style burial processional. The account concludes with her death from a putrid sore throat and fever in April 1789.
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Subject
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Foster, Mary Ann, 1784-1789
Moravians--Biography
Children--Death--Religious aspects
Bristol (England)--History--18th century
Girls--Biography
Biographies
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Identifier
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Ful/SS/49
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Language
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eng
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Extent
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8 pages
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Rights Holder
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Fulneck Moravian Archives, Fulneck, UK
