While much has been written about the work of William Blake & some of the religious beliefs that influenced him, there is a secret history which, until now, has been kept deep beneath the surface in the mystical underground of England in the eighteenth century.
Here, for the first time, leading Blake scholar Marsha Keith Schuchard reveals an altogether more intriguing & controversial picture of the poet & artist. The discovery of Blake family documents took Schuchard on a journey of detection that led her to a cast of radical characters including Cagliostro, Zinzendorf & the mystic Swedenborg, & to a world of waking visions, magical practises, sexual-spiritual experimentation, tantric sex & free love.
Why Mrs Blake Cried offers a new insight into the work of Blake & takes us on an extraordinary journey through secret societies & ancient rituals.