Society for Psychical Research

Connections

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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	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	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, 1985. 94
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...
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	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/.
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, 1973. 105 Zegger, Hrisey Dimitrakis. May Sinclair. Twayne, 1976. 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, 1990.
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, 1997. 144, 179
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, 1997. 165 Baker, Michael. Our Three Selves: The Life of Radclyffe Hall. Hamish Hamilton, 1985. 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, 1985. 104

Timeline

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.

Knight, David. The Age of Science: The Scientific World-View in the Nineteenth Century. Basil Blackwell, 1986.

195-7

Owen, Alex. The Darkened Room: Women, Power, and Spiritualism in Late Nineteenth-Century England. Virago, 1989.

102

Porter, Katherine H. Through a Glass Darkly: Spiritualism in the Browning Circle. Octagon, 1972.

125

Gauld, Alan. A History of Hypnotism. Cambridge University Press, 1992.

389-90

Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray, 1997.

143

“Society for Psychical Research”. Monstrous.com: Ghosts.

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.

Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Lodge, Sir Oliver. “Experience of Unusual Physical Phenomena Occuring in the Presence of an Entranced Person (Eusapia Paladino)”. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, Vol.

, Nov. 1894, pp. 306-60.

“Sir Oliver Lodge, 1851-1940”. First Spiritual Temple: Mediumship: Pioneers in Mediumship and Psychic Research.

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