The Raising of Lizzie Meek

by Donald Thomas

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To his followers Father Ignatius, head of an eccentric and unauthorized monastic order, was a miracle-worker of the London slums who raised the dead and healed the sick. To his enemies, he was a charlatan and sadist, a music-hall trickster and diabolist. This book is based upon events in the life of this controversial Victorian. The resurrection of a Whitechapel seamstress by Father Ignatius is here performed in the presence of a sceptical doctor, Samuel Mosley, after Mosley's son and partner, James, has certified her dead. But the seamstress, Lizzie Meek, deserts Ignatius, is denounced by him and within a month dies the very death from which he had saved her.
  • ISBN10 0709050313
  • ISBN13 9780709050315
  • Publish Date February 1993
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 23 January 1995
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher The Crowood Press Ltd
  • Imprint Robert Hale Ltd
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 192
  • Language English