num_pages: 560
description: In 1872 there was a bizarre eruption of religious mania in Hampshire's New Forest. Its leader was Mary Ann Girling, who claimed to be the female Christ and whose sect, the Children of God, lived in imminent anticipation of the Millennium. Through Mary Ann's story, Philip Hoare takes us deeper into the pagan heart of the New Forest.
language: English
title: England's Lost Eden : Adventures in a Victorian Utopia
titlecomplete: England's Lost Eden : Adventures in a Victorian Utopia
genres: Religion, History, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 27
publisher: London: Fourth Estate, 2005.