Elizabeth Grundy (1717-1799)

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Title
Elizabeth Grundy (1717-1799)
Creator
Grundy, Elizabeth, 1717-1799
Type
Text
Format
image/jpg
Description
This is a spiritual autobiography and death account of Elizabeth Grundy, who died in Yorkshire on May 9, 1799. She was born in 1717 in Lanarkshire, Scotland, and raised Presbyterian by very strict religious parents. The memoir describes vivid religious dreams and fears from childhood, illness and hardship after her father’s death, struggles with doubt, sin, and religious doctrine, periods of spiritual awakening and renewed faith, and finally her calm, deeply devotional final illness and death.
Subject
Grundy, Elizabeth, 1717-1799
Moravians--Biography
Women--Biography
Autobiographies
Place
Fetter Lane, England