Octavia, Daughter of God
In 1919, in the wake of the upheaval of World War I, a remarkable group of English women came up with their own solution to the world''s grief:a new religion. At the heart of the Panacea Society was a charismatic and autocratic leader, a vicar''s widow named Mabel Barltrop. Her followers called her Octavia, and believed that she was the daughter of God, sent to build the New Jerusalem in Bedford.
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In 1919, in the wake of the upheaval of World War I, a remarkable group of English women came up with their own solution to the world''s grief:a new religion. At the heart of the Panacea Society was a charismatic and autocratic leader, a vicar''s widow named Mabel Barltrop. Her followers called her Octavia, and believed that she was the daughter of God, sent to build the New Jerusalem in Bedford.
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