Ann Eagles (1734-

Title

Ann Eagles (1734-

Publisher

Moravian Lives Project

Date

1760?

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