Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray.
144, 179
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Other Life Event | Marjorie Bowen | For a time, the family lived in a house near the cricket ground at Lord's in London. The house appeared to be haunted; Marget's sister, the family nurse Nana, and the hired man believed... |
Cultural formation | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | SACD
joined the Society for Psychical Research
at an early date in autumn 1893, after a brief flirtation with theosophy. (He resigned from the society in March 1930, not because his belief had slackened but... |
Occupation | Radclyffe Hall | RH
was appointed a member of the Council of the Society for Psychical Research
, to which she had already given two lectures. Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray. 144, 179 |
Textual Production | Radclyffe Hall | RH
gave the first of two lectures for the Society
for Psychical Research: the paper she gave was jointly written with Una Troubridge
. Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray. 143-4 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Radclyffe Hall | Although Una finished a bust of RH
in October 1918, her career as a sculptor was soon overtaken by the demands of her lover's writing career. She read aloud drafts of Hall's manuscripts and helped... |
Cultural formation | Radclyffe Hall | RH
's belief in spiritualism was in conflict with her Catholicism
. The Catholic Church did not condone spiritualism and she could not find a confessor who approved of her meetings with the medium she... |
Fictionalization | Radclyffe Hall | In contrast with Hall's views, Mackenzie represented lesbianism as a temporary social construct, sometimes entertaining for the (usually male) observer. This book also contains a more specific connection to RH
in its dour character named... |
Cultural formation | Margery Lawrence | ML
accepted the spiritualist belief that there are levels of existence in the afterlife, or the Other Side, the lowest being the astral plane. One's plane on the Other Side, she maintained... |
Occupation | Edith Lyttelton | EL
, a long-standing member of the Society for Psychical Research
, served as its president. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
death | Edith Lyttelton | Her memorial service was attended by relations and by prominent members of society, politicians, and representatives from the wide variety of causes she supported, including the Victoria League
, the Shakespeare Memorial National Theatre Committee |
Textual Production | Edith Lyttelton | Several of EL
's later works focus on parapsychology, a subject she took very seriously as a long-time member (later president) of the Society for Psychical Research
. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Edith Lyttelton | Its chapters include Symbols and their Use, Mind Pictures, Dreams, and Knowledge of Future Events. The latter contains a discussion of foreknowledge in automatic writing and utterance, using the example of... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Ethel Sidgwick | Though she calls her work a memoir, ES
spends only twenty-six pages writing about Eleanor Sidgwick's childhood, and gives much of the text to the history of Newnham, before as well as during her aunt's... |
Occupation | May Sinclair | MS
was elected a member of the Society for Psychical Research
, which helped to bring the work of Freud
, Jung
, and Pierre Janet
to England. Boll, Theophilus E. M. Miss May Sinclair: Novelist: A Biographical and Critical Introduction. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 105 Zegger, Hrisey Dimitrakis. May Sinclair. Twayne. 22 Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
Occupation | May Sinclair | She was one of a total of six founding members of the Medico-Psychological Clinic
who also belonged to the Society for Psychical Research
. She never, however, contributed to the Society's journal or its proceedings. |
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