Visions & Revisions: A Textual History of Ellen G. White's Writings

The Seventh-day Adventist prophet Ellen Gould Harmon White (1827-1915) enlisted more than 20 literary assistantsto convert her handwritten manuscripts into proper, polished prose. Then, both before and after her death, her publishedwritings were corrected, combined, excised, expanded, revised, modernized, adapted, simplified, translated, reprinted, and reformatted. Just as John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress has been abridged, modified, and illustrated in dozens of ways, Ellen White’s books have also been altered and redecorated over the years. This book is the story of howher visions underwent these revisions. It explains the editorial processes that began when she first dipped her pen in ink and put it to paper. It even describes that pen and paper.