Patience Worth transcripts, volume 30

On July 8, 1913, St. Louis music teacher and housewife Pearl Curran and some friends gathered around a Ouija board, where Curran received a message from Patience Worth, the spirit of a 17th-century English woman. Over the next 24 years, she wrote successful novels, plays, and poems that she claimed were dictated to her by Patience Worth via the Ouija board. Today, skeptical experts think Curran may have invented Patience Worth to express herself during a time when women faced myriad barriers to successful publishing careers.

Object Title and Accession Number

Patience Worth transcripts, volume 30: Odds and Ends of Records and Short Stories. Attributed to Patience Worth, ca. 1925. A0351-00025.