Society for Psychical Research

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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.
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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.
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Zegger, Hrisey Dimitrakis. May Sinclair. Twayne.
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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.

Timeline

1882: The Society for Psychical Research was founded...

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1882

The Society for Psychical Research was founded with the purpose of conducting objective scientific research into supernatural phenomena such as clairvoyance, telepathy, and mediumship.

November 1894: English physicist Sir Oliver Lodge (who was...

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November 1894

English physicist Sir Oliver Lodge (who was just then pioneering research on radio wavess) published his influential research on Spiritualist medium Eusapia Paladino . This appeared in the Journal of the Society for Psychical Research.

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