Anne Wentworth (prophetess)

Anne Wentworth was a seventeenth-century English prophetess and writer, who gained followers and a patron that funded the publications of her religious writings.

After this "visitation" from God, she spent nearly seven years improving her writing, before publishing her first work, a pamphlet Titled A True Account of Anne Wentworth's Being Cruelly, Unjustly, and Unchristianly Dealt with by Some of Those People Called Anabaptists (1676), commonly referred to as A True Account of Anne Wentworth (Taft).

In 1675, it remained unclear whether Wentworth was excommunicated from their denomination after writing critiques on it (Gill 115) or if she left it of her own free will (Taft).

During this period, she also sent letters to King Charles II and the Lord Mayor of London relating to them the upcoming Apocalypse "before New Year's Day, 1678" (Taft).

Her actions provoked her husband which pushed him to enlist three of his cousins to forcibly remove Wentworth from her home in the summer of 1677 (Taft).

Despite the decline in her popularity after the failure in her prophecy, Anne continued to write England's Spiritual Pill, which was believed to have been published in 1678, but its publication date is uncertain" (Taft) and The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which was meant to record "the actual words Christ ... spoke to her" that incited her prophetic voice.

Due to her departure from traditionally accepted behavior for women of her time, Wentworth's life was tainted by chaos and persecution.

Its full title is "A True Account of Anne Wentworth Being cruelly, unjustly, and unchristianly dealt with by some of those people called Anabaptists".

The complete title to this piece is ENGLANDS SPIRITUAL PILL Which will Purge, Cure, or Kill; DECLARING The Great and Wonderfull Things WHICH The Almighty and most High God JESUS CHRIST King of Kings, and Lord of Lords, Hath Revealed unto ANNE WENTWORTH CONCERNING A Through-Reformation of Church-worship, from all Hypocritical and Idolatrous Formalities, the downfall of Babylon, and the finishing of her Testimony.