Between 1913 and 1937, an author giving her name as Patience Worth produced approximately four million words, including seven books, some short stories, several plays, thousands of poems, and countless epigrams and aphorisms. She would be acclaimed a literary genius – her works compared with Shakespeare, Chaucer, and Spenser. She was called a wit, a poet, a dramatist, and a philosopher.
Some readers of her books may have thought that Patience Worth was alive in the flesh, when, in fact, she had been “dead” for several centuries. Her words were dictated through the mediumship of Pearl Curran (1883 – 1937), an American housewife with only an elementary school education living in St. Louis, Missouri.

In 1913 Pearl believed that a dead Colonial woman named Patience Worth began communicating with her via a Ouija board. She wrote poems, letters, and even whole novels that she said were communicated to her from beyond the grave by Worth’s spirit

Pearl Curran was born in the UK England