Baker, Michael. Our Three Selves: The Life of Radclyffe Hall. Hamish Hamilton.
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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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 |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| 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/. |
| 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... |
| 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 |
| 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 | 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 |
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...
Writing climate item
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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