Patience Worth: Temptress is one of the remarkable literary works produced through automatic writing and dictation by Pearl Lenore Curran (1883 – 1937), who claimed to channel a seventeenth-century spirit named Patience Worth.
Blending historical imagination, spiritual insight, and psychological depth, Temptress tells a dramatic story rich in symbolism and moral reflection. It exemplifies the mysterious voice and distinctive literary style that captivated both believers and sceptics of early-twentieth-century spiritualism.
The Patience Worth writings, praised for their vocabulary and poetic power, remain a subject of study in parapsychology, literature, and consciousness research.
 
Pearl Lenore Curran, an American housewife from St Louis, began producing the Patience Worth communications in 1913. Over the next two decades she delivered several full-length novels, plays, and hundreds of poems, including The Sorry Tale, Hope Trueblood, and Telka.
The phenomenon continues to intrigue linguists, psychologists, and historians of psychical research.