Florence Cook

Standard Name: Cook, Florence

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Friends, Associates	Florence Marryat	FM became well known in spiritualist circles and acquainted with all the best mediums. qtd. in Hill, Georgina O’Brien. “’Above the Breath of Suspicion’: Florence Marryat and the Shadow of the Fraudulent Trance Medium”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 15 , No. 3, Dec. 2008, pp. 333-47. 334 She mentions the names of many spiritualists she knew, both professional mediums and amateur seekers like herself. Among the first...
Textual Features	Michèle Roberts	A propos the cheerfulness of this novel (for which her muse was her soon-to-be husband), MR says: It wasn't that men were suddenly heroes, it was more about human warmth. qtd. in Newman, Jenny. “Michèle Roberts”. Contemporary British and Irish Fiction, edited by Sharon Monteith et al., Arnold, 2004, pp. 119-34. 130 It is another text...

An article in the Spiritualist heralded Florence Cook , only fifteen, as a young, talented medium.

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

45, 47-8

Medium Florence Cook materialized what was said to be the first full spirit ever seen in Britain.

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

48, 50, 55, 66-7

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