Ann Lee, the founding leader of the Shaker movement, was proclaimed the female Christ by her followers. The film depicts her ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lee, pegged by Fastvold as the “first feminist” of colonial America, was born in Manchester, England, in 1736. She would go on to ...

Director Mona Fastvold’s new film, “The Testament of Ann Lee,” features actor Amanda Seyfried in the titular role: the ...

In 1774, a small group of splintered-off Quakers from Manchester boarded a rickety ship to America, led by the visions of an illiterate woman named Ann Lee, whom they believed to be the second coming ...

As Ann Lee flees Europe, her religion evolves and becomes the inspiration for American design today — a journey captured in ...

Ann has been seeking and preparing for spiritual insight her whole life, most earnestly in the small home church of “shaking ...

With "The Testament of Ann Lee", a movie about the founder of the 18th-century Shaker religious movement screening at the Venice Film Festival, director Mona Fastvold sought to honour a figure "on the ...

The Shakers were a utopian, egalitarian religious group, originally an offshoot of the Quaker community in eighteenth-century England, whose adherents dedicated themselves to God by separating ...

US actress Amanda Seyfried plays the title role in 'The Testament of Ann Lee' Norwegian director Mona Fastvold wanted to rescue the memory of early feminist Anne Lee 'The Testament of Ann Lee' cast ...