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
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/
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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