Porter, Katherine H. Through a Glass Darkly: Spiritualism in the Browning Circle. Octagon.
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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Other Life Event | Alfred Tennyson | Apparently he later used mesmerism to soothe his wife after the birth of their son. He was also interested in the ideas of the eighteenth-century philosopher and seer Emanuel Swedenborg
. Porter, Katherine H. Through a Glass Darkly: Spiritualism in the Browning Circle. Octagon. 121-2 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Kathleen Raine | KR
's poetry, which focusses on archetypal forms of being, is influenced by Swedenborg
and the Neo-Platonists. She was also fascinated by the avant-garde movements of her era: Bloomsbury Humanism, Freud
ianism, Wittgenstein
's and... |
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... |
Cultural formation | Annie Keary | Having found she could live with Broad Church
theology as to the issue of damnation, she later encountered further difficulties over new scientific theories. These threatened her intellectual hold on religion, though her sister insists... |
Cultural formation | Sheila Kaye-Smith | From childhood SKS
was fervently religious. Her parents were Anglicans
(though her mother had been brought up a Presbyterian
). Walker, Dorothea. Sheila Kaye-Smith. Twayne. 18 |
Cultural formation | Sarah Orne Jewett | SOJ
was attracted to the ritual of the Anglican service, and was confirmed as an Episcopalian, although when in South Berwick her family attended the Congregationalist church. However, the most profound religious influence on her... |
Textual Production | Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde | Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde
, probably either translated or revised an earlier translation of philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg
's Heaven and Hell, with the new title The Future Life. Melville, Joy. Mother of Oscar. John Murray. 69 |
Author summary | Mary Catherine Hume | MCH
, who following her marriage published as Mary Hume-Rothery, wrote in a number of genres from the mid-nineteenth century onwards Her works include a biography, several collections of poems (many of which reflect her... |
Education | Mary Catherine Hume | Together they carefully studied the writings of Emanuel Swedenborg
and she was deeply influenced by Tulk's philosophy. They also read and studied Shakespeare
. Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research. 240: 101 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Catherine Hume | Tulk, her friend and mentor and a leading Swedenborg
ian, had died the previous year. The British Library
copy has a newspaper cutting bound in, and manuscript notes. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Catherine Hume | The other poems in the collection touch on the Crystal Palace (recently moved to its permanent home in Sydenham just south of London), Emanuel Swedenborg
, and MCH
's father, Joseph Hume
. Hume, Mary Catherine. Normiton. J. W. Parker and Son. prelims |
Family and Intimate relationships | Katharine Bruce Glasier | KBG
was devastated by her husband's death, but later she began to experience visions of his continuing presence (as she did of her son's presence after he too died). Kelly, Gary, and Edd Applegate, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 190. Gale Research. 190:125 Glasier, Katharine Bruce. The Glen Book. London. 79 |
politics | Eliza Fenwick | Fifty years later EF
remembered being a unit of a circle where Faiths, Politics, Systems & Literature were constantly discussed—I, a mere listener among the Elite of those well qualified to be assailants & defenders.... |
Cultural formation | Lydia Maria Child | As to religion, LMC
had a natural leaning towards piety, but disliked most of the Christian sects of which she had experience. She found the Unitarians too cold, the Swedenborgians (to whom early in her... |
Intertextuality and Influence | A. S. Byatt | Together, says Byatt, the stories make up one exploration of Victorian anxieties about what it was to be human. Byatt, A. S. A. S. Byatt. http://www.asbyatt.com/. |