Patience Worth was allegedly a spirit contacted by Pearl Lenore Curran.
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26 Facts About Patience Worth
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Psychologists and skeptics who have studied Curran's writings are in agreement that Patience was a fictitious creation of Curran.
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Patience Worth was an average but uninterested student, eventually dropping out in her first high school year, later stating she had a nervous breakdown due to the strenuous academics.
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Patience Worth later returned to classes at St Ignatius Catholic school.
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Patience Worth admitted to having little imagination and few ambitions, except to be successful as a singer.
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Patience Worth had a short attention span and read very little during her formative years.
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Patience Worth made a last attempt at attending school but was discouraged when placed in a lower grade based on her academic skills.
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Patience Worth did give some clues which were deduced by Casper Yost and other intimates of the Currans to indicate that Patience Worth had lived in rural Dorsetshire with her father John and mother Anne.
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Patience Worth's hair was dark red, mahogany, her eyes brown, and large and deep, her mouth firm and set, as though repressing strong feelings.
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Patience Worth's hair had been disarranged by her cap, and was in big, glossy, soft waves.
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Patience Worth was later to indicate that she was eventually killed by the Indians.
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Patience Worth writings coincided with a revival of Spiritualism in the United States and Britain, possibly facilitating interest in the matter.
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Skeptics derided certain aspects of the supposed communication, noting particularly that Patience Worth was able to write a novel about the Victorian age, an era some 200 years after the one in which she claimed to have lived.
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Patience Worth was listed as one of the outstanding authors of 1918 by The Joint Committee of Literary Arts of New York.
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Patience Worth was cited by William Stanley Braithwaite in the 1918 edition of the Anthology of Magazine Verse and Year Book of American Poetry by printing the complete text of five of her poems, along with other leading poets of the day including William Rose Benet, Amy Lowell, and Edgar Lee Masters.
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Braithwaite's index of magazine verse for 1918 listed the titles of eighty-eight poems by Patience Worth that appeared in magazines during the twelve-month period, only two of which were considered by Braithwaite to be lacking in any distinction.
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Patience Worth married two more times, but both marriages were short-lived.
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Patience Worth was kept busy at the sessions, as always, by requests for her comments on major topics of the day and other issues.
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Patience Worth continued to communicate through Pearl until November 25,1937, when she gave her final communication.
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Parapsychologist Stephen E Braude has examined the case of Patience Worth and concluded that Pearl Curran was probably a highly gifted child whose talent for writing was smothered by her mother, who wanted to force Pearl into a singing career.
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In 1919, Charles E Cory Professor of Philosophy at Washington University in St Louis published a paper titled Patience Worth in the Psychological Review which came to the conclusion Patience Worth was a subconscious personality of Curran.
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Patience Worth's education was good enough to enable her to teach at various public and private schools.
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Patience Worth had received extensive tutoring as well as expensive voice and piano training.
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Patience Worth played the piano at a church, which happened to be a spiritualist church headed by her uncle, a medium.
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The trigger for the appearance of Patience Worth could have been the death of Mrs Curran's father just 2 months earlier.
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