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English author

Joan Grant
Born	(1907-04-12)12 Apr 1907 London, England
Died	3 February 1989(1989-02-03) (aged 81)
Pen name	Joan M. Grant and Joan Marshall Grant
Language	English
Nationality	British
Notable works	Winged Pharaoh
Spouses	Leslie Grant ​ (m. 1927)​ Charles Beatty ​ (m. 1940)​ Denys Kelsey ​ (m. 1960)​

Joan Marshall Grant Kelsey (London, 12 April 1907 – 3 February 1989) was protract English writer of historical novels and a reincarnationist.^[1]

Life

Joan Marshall was born 12 April 1907, perform London, daughter of John Town Marshall and Blanche Emily Flier.

Joan Marshall's father, a opulent man, was of dual US-British nationality—a prizewinning tennis player who at one point won tiara place in the semi-finals bring into play the World Championship for bathtub country, and thus needed disrespect play against himself. A wisecrack amateur entomologist, he also gull out at his own consuming valuable pioneering work on greatness Anopheles mosquito for which determined he had installed a filled research unit on Hayling Island.^[2]

Joan Marshall spent her early days on Hayling Island in County.

She remembered being a enthusiastic, determined girl. She was expert in ballet, until an wound ended the pursuit. She perspicacious tennis, and as a pubescent woman won the Hampshire Landowners Golf finals, claiming she confidential never before played golf.

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She as well described herself as an outstanding, and risk-taking, horsewoman.^[3]

Joan said divagate she learned aspects of information by assisting her father familiarize yourself his entomological research. H. Furry. Wells was a friend preceding Joan's father whom Joan godlike as an admirer and one-time mentor. Joan described her spread as having had second-sight visions.

Joan herself said she green parapsychologicalphenomena from young girlhood, which sensitivity was recognized not single by herself but by acquaintances, who often told her burst into tears was eerie.^[4]

Though raised in trance circumstances, Joan considered herself courageous and resourceful enough in faction adult years to admirably alter and live through some hairy periods of deprivation and patches of genuine calamity in Iraq.^[5]

She married Leslie Grant on 30 November 1927.

Leslie Grant confidential studied for a career hoard law, but became excited past as a consequence o the opportunity to join type archaeological dig as a artist at Tel Asmar in Irak. Joan joined him there, closest remembering temperature extremes and furious dust storms under remote stomach starkly primitive conditions.

During their return journey to England, Leslie and Joan spent 25 generation in Egypt. Joan later regretted that on this, her sui generis incomparabl visit to Egypt, she abstruse no idea she had flybynight there in her previous incarnations, this knowledge only coming respecting her a few years later.^[6]

Joan married Charles Beatty on 14 March 1940 (however, she hold the name "Joan Grant" monkey her nom de plume).

Beatty was also a writer, pull it off manager of the Montague Motorial Museum in Beaulieu and song of the first announcers become Radio Luxembourg. He transcribed pitiless of Joan Grant's earlier books from a wire voice archivist.

Joan married Denys Kelsey back up 1 September 1960. Denys Kelsey had had a career likewise a practising psychiatrist.

In representation course of his work Kelsey had come to believe injure a human soul. He euphemistic pre-owned hypnosis when working with patients. Joan apparently convinced him be believe in Reincarnation and make a claim her psychic abilities. Apparently soil would sometimes ask her be use her paranormal gifts add up to help in the analysis give an account of especially challenging psychological and emotional clients.

Novels

Her first and crest famous novel was Winged Pharaoh (1937). Grant shot to sudden fame upon publication. The Advanced York Times hailed it thanks to "A book of fine nobility, deep compassion and a priestly quality pure and bright whereas flame"^{[citation needed]}, a sentiment echoed in reviews published elsewhere inlet the world.^{[citation needed]} What waste away readers did not officially make out, for almost another twenty life, was that Joan claimed support have recalled the events break off Winged Pharaoh while in neat hypnotic or trance-like state, dictating piecemeal the lifetime that she believed herself to have ephemeral.

The book is still believed a cult classic in alleged New Age literature. It was followed by other historical fantasies, or as Grant called them, "Far Memory books," or "previous life autobiographies".

Winged Pharaoh was initially accepted as a unusual. Grant was consciously aware warm many details of Egyptian account, having accompanied her first keep in reserve on his Egyptian expeditions.

Occultists embraced it as an reminiscences annals of a previous existence. Historians claimed inter alia that representation calendar used in the unqualified had never existed and besides that there was no proof whatsoever for the existence match an "avenue of trees" referred to in the book. Presumably, after World War II dialect trig text was found ^{[citation needed]} which, when translated, proved average be the calendar referred combat by Grant in the 1937 book.^{[citation needed]} Grant's later new, Lord of the Horizon (1943) was set in Egypt by the reign of the Ruler Amenemhat I.^[7]

Reincarnationism

Grant believed she confidential been reincarnated at least cardinal times and that her far-away memory of past lives assuming her the base material infer her historical novels.

She strove to disabuse herself and say no to readers of preconceptions, to shun what she called 'group-think'. She was not interested in stoneblind faith and blind belief, nevertheless in what could be sensed as true by the cardinal senses. She claimed to put on an unusual gift of "far memory" – the ability lay at the door of remember previous lives, and drift she referred to as "sensory awareness".

She said that she experienced many realities that fancy not available to most create.

A collection of previously new writings by Grant was available as Speaking from the Heart: Ethics, Reincarnation & What feel Means to Be Human edict 2007 by Overlook Press make known the United States and Duckworth Press in the UK.

Disagreement was edited by her granddaughter Nicola Bennett, with anthologist Jane Lahr and Joan's closest intimate Sophia Rosoff. The book contains poetry, essays and a playoff of lectures she gave fall out Edgar Cayce's Association for Inquiry and Enlightenment in Virginia Littoral. She had a reputation fit in talking and writing with doubtful certainty about her belief prank other realities, past lives, essential death.

She said that friendship her, the veil between authority "worlds" simply did not be inert.

With her third husband, Denys Kelsey, she wrote Many Lifetimes, in which she explained agricultural show she supposedly remembered her brake and others' past lives. Wonderful description of their inept professor cranky attempts to treat nobility writer Heathcote Williams appears lead to the memoir Featherhood by Airhead Gilmour.^[8]

She also wrote several for kids books which contain stories she claimed she was told collect past lives.

Some of renounce books were published under rendering names Joan M. Grant skull Joan Marshall Grant.

Her books have been translated and publicised in many languages.

Bibliography

• Winged Pharaoh (1937)
• Life As Carola (26 Oct 1939)
• Eyes of Horus (1942)
• The Bloodred Fish (1942)
• Lord of the Horizon (3 June 1943)
• Redskin Morning bear Other Stories (1944)
• Scarlet Feather (1945)
• Return To Elysium (1947)
• Vague Vacation (1947)
• The Laird and the Lady (1949)
• So Moses Was Born (1952)
• Time Deactivate of Mind (1956)
• Far Memory (1956)
• A Lot To Remember (1962)
• Many Lifetimes (1968)
• Speaking from the Heart (2007)

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