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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Cultural formation | Una Troubridge | UT
and her lover Radclyffe Hall
joined the Society for Psychical Research
(founded in 1882) at the encouragement of Sir Oliver Lodge
, a well-known physicist and writer on Spiritualism. Baker, Michael. Our Three Selves: The Life of Radclyffe Hall. Hamish Hamilton. 94 |
Other Life Event | Una Troubridge | UT
's relationship with Radclyffe Hall
was publicly scrutinised when Hall sued George Lane Fox-Pitt
, a member of the Society for Psychical Research
, for accusing her of immorality. Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray. 165 Baker, Michael. Our Three Selves: The Life of Radclyffe Hall. Hamish Hamilton. 124, 128, 131 |
Textual Production | Una Troubridge | UT
collaborated with Radclyffe Hall
on the first part of a research paper, On a Series of Sittings with Mrs. Osborne Leonard. Hall now delivered it to a private council of Society for Psychical Research |
Publishing | Una Troubridge | UT
researched and wrote a paper on Spiritualism entitled The Modus Operandi in So-Called Mediumistic Trance, which she published in the Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research
, to which she belonged. Ormrod, Richard. Una Troubridge: The Friend of Radclyffe Hall. Carroll and Graf. 104 |
Author summary | Una Troubridge | Twentieth-century translator and biographer UT
is best remembered for her numerous translations from the French and Italian, and for her biography of her lover of twenty-eight years, the writer Radclyffe Hall
. UT
also published... |
Publishing | Una Troubridge | During her involvement with the Society for Psychical Research
, from about 1916 to 1921, a number of UT
's papers appeared in the Proceedings, some of which she co-wrote with Radclyffe Hall
. Troubridge, Una. The Life and Death of Radclyffe Hall. Hammond, Hammond. 57 |
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. |
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 | 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... |
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 | 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 |
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