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The Unprintable Life of Ida C. Craddock, American Mystic, Scholar, Sexologist, Martyr, and Madwoman
Basic Books
December 2010
On Sale: December 7, 2010
320 pages
ISBN: 0465002986
EAN: 9780465002986
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Biography
The nineteenth-century eccentric Ida C. Craddock was by
turns a secular freethinker, a religious visionary, a
civil-liberties advocate, and a resolute defender of
belly-dancing. Arrested and tried repeatedly on obscenity
charges, she was deemed a danger to public morality for her
candor about sexuality. By the end of her life Craddock, the
nemesis of the notorious vice crusader Anthony Comstock, had
become a favorite of free-speech defenders and women’s
rights activists. She soon became as well the case-history
darling of one of America’s earliest and most determined
Freudians. In Heaven’s Bride, prize-winning historian Leigh Eric
Schmidt offers a rich biography of this forgotten mystic,
who occupied the seemingly incongruous roles of yoga
priestess, suppressed sexologist, and suspected madwoman. In
Schmidt’s evocative telling, Craddock’s story reveals the
beginning of the end of Christian America, a harbinger of
spiritual variety and sexual revolution.
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