Two images of Allegheny City and a challenge. See https://truthhistory.blogspot.com/ the newest post.
Interesting bit of Watch Tower history
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dropoffyourkeylee
Cool,
The second article about Angels and Women was interesting too. I'm sure that book has been discussed on this site before. I have read it from a library loan. My mom read it about the time she was studying in the early '60s, apparently her teacher thought at the time it was good reading for her bible study.
I looked for a copy of Seola some years ago but wasn't able to find one. I do have another book by the same author Mrs J G Smith. I think it is called 'Atla'
Fanciful fiction of the time period
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Beth Sarim
I like Phills videos.
On the Blue Envelope channel.. He always does good content on Borg history.
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slimboyfat
No idea what the answer to the question in the blog post is. Will an answer be posted at one point?
Many years ago, Leolaia offered analyses of Angels and Women and Seola but after much searching I have been unable to find the threads. Maybe someone else has it?
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blondie
I did a search for her comments here on JWN. MIght take some sorting through. https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/users/7002/Leolaia/topics
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slimboyfat
I’ve looked through all Leolaia’s threads and can’t find it. But she may well have been commenting on someone else’s thread. Or it could have been lost, as we know some threads have been lost or deleted over the years. But most likely it’s there somewhere, it’s just difficult to find.
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dropoffyourkeylee
About ten to fifteen years ago there was a guy who self-published/ reprinted Angels and Women (with some modifications) and had it for sale on Lulu. I don't recall his name, but for some reason he credited me (or rather a webpage I had authored) in helping him to identify the author of Seola. She was Ann Eliza Brainerd (Mrs J.G. Smith). I think she was deceased by the time the Bible Student reprinted and revised it as Angels and Women. The republished Angels and Women was a thinly disguised advertisement for Russell's Studies in the Scriptures, with numerous footnotes directing the reader to the Studies.
As a youngster I used to read all kinds of science fiction, and the SF of the late 1800's was kind of fanciful to modern readers, but Seola was not unusual for the time. In my opinion, Mrs. Smith's fiction fell into the SF genre of the pre-1900 time period and was simply that, works of fiction.