Sarah Flaxmer

Sarah Flaxmer (fl. 1790s) was an English religious polemicist and self-proclaimed prophetess.

History

Flaxmer was a religious polemicist and self-proclaimed prophetess,[1] who proclaimed that she was a herald of the second coming.[2] She was the author of Satan revealed; or the dragon overcome. With an explanation of the twelfth chapter of the Revelations. And also, a testimony that Richard Brothers, is a prophet sent from the Lord, published in 1795.[3][4][5]

In the work, Flaxmer argued that Satan "knowing that a Woman was to reveal him, has endeavoured to lessen the character of women."[6] She was inspired by Revelation 12.[7]

Flaxmer also interpreted recent military defeats, such as the British Army's 1795 evacuation from Bremen during the War of the First Coalition, in the light of apocalyptic prophecies from the Book of Revelation.[8][9]

Flaxmer was a poor woman living in London lodgings.[10] Her dates of birth and death are unknown.[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ Monod, Paul Kleber (15 April 2013). Solomon's Secret Arts: The Occult in the Age of Enlightenment. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-19539-2.
  2. ^ Clark, Anna (18 April 1997). The Struggle for the Breeches: Gender and the Making of the British Working Class. University of California Press. pp. 108–109. ISBN 978-0-520-20883-4.
  3. ^ a b "Flaxmer, Sarah. Person ID 2439". The Women’s Print History Project. Retrieved 22 October 2025.
  4. ^ Rix, Robert William (2015). "Joanna Southcott and the Strange Effects of Printing: Publishing Prophecies in the Early Nineteenth Century". History of Religions. 55 (1): 65–88. doi:10.1086/681804. ISSN 0018-2710.
  5. ^ Bauschke, Doreen; Klambauer, Anna (5 November 2018). The Sense and Sensibility of Madness: Disrupting Normalcy in Literature and the Arts. BRILL. p. 66. ISBN 978-90-04-38238-1.
  6. ^ Cogan, Lucy (1 April 2015). "William Blake's The Book of Los and the Female Prophetic Tradition". Romanticism. 21 (1): 48–58. doi:10.3366/rom.2015.0210.
  7. ^ Saulina, Chakrita M. (2 June 2023). "Re-envisioning the Church through the "Eyes" of the Woman Clothed with the Sun and the Bride in John's Apocalypse". Veritas: Jurnal Teologi Dan Pelayanan. 22 (1): 1–18. doi:10.36421/veritas.v22i1.613. ISSN 2684-9194. Archived from the original on 11 December 2025. Retrieved 22 October 2025.
  8. ^ Rendall, Jane (1985), Rendall, Jane (ed.), "Evangelicalism and the Power of Women", The Origins of Modern Feminism: Women in Britain, France and the United States 1780–1860, London: Macmillan Education UK, pp. 73–107, doi:10.1007/978-1-349-17733-2_4, ISBN 978-1-349-17733-2, retrieved 22 October 2025{{citation}}: CS1 maint: work parameter with ISBN (link)
  9. ^ Hobson, Christopher Z. (1999). The Chained Boy: Orc and Blake's Idea of Revolution. Associated University Presse. p. 96. ISBN 978-0-8387-5385-9.
  10. ^ Clark, Anna (1988). "The Sexual Crisis and Popular Religion in London, 1770–1820". International Labor and Working-Class History. 34: 56–69. doi:10.1017/S0147547900005032. ISSN 1471-6445. Archived from the original on 13 June 2024. Retrieved 22 October 2025.


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