Joanna Southcott was an English religious fanatic. She was born in 1750 at Gittisham, Devon and died in 1814 of brainfever. After working as a domestic servant and shop assistant, she joined the Methodists and about 1790 began to write prophecies which attracted a good deal of attention. He followers became numerous and in 1802 she settled in London and a chapel was opened for her followers. She put forward the idea that she was about to become the mother of Shiloh, the second Christ, and great preparations were made but she died of brainfever. Research Joanna Southcott
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