128: Victorian Spiritualism and Seances

We're continuing spooky month talking about seances! The phenomenon spread like wildfire as people were entertained by productions and found peace in connecting with lost loved ones. 

 

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Sources

 

“Spiritualism”

https://library.umbc.edu/specialcollections/garrett/spiritualism/

 

“Understanding the 1920s Spiritualism Revival” by Rose Staveley-Wadham (Oct 14 2021)

https://blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2021/10/14/understanding-the-1920s-spiritualism-revival/

 

“The Fox Sisters and the Rap on Spiritualism” by Abbott Kahler (Oct 30 2012)

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-fox-sisters-and-the-rap-on-spiritualism-99663697/

 

“Hypnosis in History” 

https://hypnosis.edu/history/the-birth-of-mesmerism

 

https://swedenborg.com/emanuel-swedenborg/for-swedenborg-starters/

 

“Why did so many Victorians try to speak with the dead? By Casey Cep (May 24 2021)

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/05/31/why-did-so-many-victorians-try-to-speak-with-the-dead

 

“Victorian Spiritualism” by Susan Krysiak (2023)

https://www.capemaymag.com/arts-and-entertainment/victorian-vignette/victorian-spiritualism/

 

“Spiritualism, Science, and the Supernatural in Mid-Victorian Britain” by Richard Noakes 

https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/43093582.pdf

 

“Seeing is Believing: Spiritualism in the Victorian Era-Part 4” by Julie Mathias (Aug 1 2019)

https://oldoperatingtheatre.com/seeing-is-believing-spiritualism-in-the-victorian-era-part-4/

 

“Seeing is Believing: Spiritualism in the Victorian Era-Part 2” by Julie Mathias (Aug 1 2019)

https://oldoperatingtheatre.com/seeing-is-believing-spiritualism-in-the-victorian-era-part-2/

 

“Victoran Spiritualism - Proponents and Opponents” by Dr. Andrzej Kiniejko (Nov 14 2013)

https://victorianweb.org/religion/spiritualism2.html

 

“Spiritualism and a Mid-Victorian Crisis of Evidence” by Peter Lamont (2004). The Historical Journal, 47, 4. pp. 897-920. doi:10.1017/S0018246X04004030

https://www.pure.ed.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/11872202/Spiritualism_and_a_mid_Victorian_crisis_of_evidence.pdf

 

“History of the Golden Dawn: A Timeline” 

https://hermeticgoldendawn.org/history-of-the-golden-dawn/

 

“Ghost Club: Yeats’s and Dickens’s Secret Society of Spirits” by Peter Hoskin (Oct 31 2017)

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/10/31/ghost-club-yeats-dickens-secret-society-spirits/

 

“The Victorian Occult Obsession | Seances and Scammers” by ASMR Historian 

 

“Victorian Spiritualism” by Dr. Andrzej Kiniejko (Nov 14 2013)

https://victorianweb.org/victorian/religion/spirit.html 

 

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