Patience Worth

Casper S. Yost (1863 - 1941)

Patience Worth is an examination of the communications between a seventeenth century woman and a certain Mrs. Curran of St. Louis, in 1913. Contact with the spirit world or parlor trick? If the latter, it was well done: the quick-witted repartee appeared unrehearsed, the language was authentic, the references to English nature and life accurate, although Mrs. Curran had never visited England. Mrs. Curran, herself, was a smart, quick-witted socialite of good repute, unlikely to have been a fraudster. She did not 'perform' publicly, only in front of friends and invited guests, and never for money. She was a musician by training, not a writer or poet, yet many of the communications took the form of blank verse and were of a poetical nature. Since its publication, the phenomenon has been much studied and general view is that Patience Worth was the invention of Pearl Curran's imagination. In this volume, we are presented with the evidence and left to decide for ourselves. - Summary by Lynne Thompson

Genre(s): Biography & Autobiography

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 01 The Coming of Patience Worth Lynne T
00:07:51
Play 02 Nature of the Communications Lynne T
00:30:45
Play 03 Personality of Patience Lynne T
00:26:37
Play 04 The Poetry Lynne T
00:48:12
Play 05 The Prose Part 1 Lynne T
00:37:49
Play 06 The Prose Part 2 Lynne T
00:34:15
Play 07 Conversations Lynne T
00:55:32
Play 08 Religion Lynne T
00:25:32
Play 09 The Ideas on Immorality Lynne T
00:39:21