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16 Φεβ 2024 · A medium named Florence Cook became famous for “materialization” séances. With the medium supposedly unconscious in a closed cabinet, a willowy female figure claiming to be the long-dead spirit Katie King walked through the séance room, beguiling such observers as the scientist William Crookes, who discovered the element thallium.
18 Οκτ 2021 · Spiritualism was a religious movement that gained momentum in America during the mid-1800s. The movement essentially held that people could communicate with people have died – and enabled people to do that through mediums. Angie Grandstaff explains.
24 Μαΐ 2021 · Why Did So Many Victorians Try to Speak with the Dead? Many explanations have been offered for Spiritualism, but the movement was more than a fad. By Casey Cep. May 24, 2021. Among its other...
12 Οκτ 2018 · This is a beautiful, award-winning book about how the Civil War changed the landscape of grieving and rocked America in countless ways that you may never have thought of. It’ll rock a history nerd’s socks right off.
10 Μαΐ 2017 · THE SPIRITUALIST MEDIUM: A STUDY OF FEMALE PROFESSIONALISM IN VICTORIAN AMERICA R. LAURENCE MOORE Cornell University IN HIS JOURNAL EMERSON INCLUDED THE SPIRITUALIST MEDIUM AMONG the new professions that he believed had emerged in America in the 1850s. It was not a happy admission for him. The sudden and rapid proliferation of
25 Ιουν 2018 · American women who were spirit mediums tended to fit a particular social profile: typically they were young, white, Protestant, and unmarried. They tended to come from New York or New England, and held progressive views on civil rights issues.
7 Ιουλ 2020 · Ethel Post Parrish has waited since 1958 for a biography worthy of her stature. America’s leading medium of the 1930s-1950s. Much admired, envied, and ridiculed in her lifetime, Ethel’s sensational materialization seances featured spirits of different sexes, ages, races, and cultures.
