Frederic William Henry Myers

Standard Name: Myers, Frederic William Henry
Used Form: F. W. H. Myers

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Cultural formation George Eliot
GE 's agnosticism was famously reported after her death by Cambridge academic Frederic Myers as gloomy and forbidding, insisting on duty while withholding any faith or comfort, setting herself up as a remote and superior...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Sophie Veitch
George Eliot reviews the recently published collection by Eliot's widower, J. W. Cross (George Eliot's Life as Related in her Letters and Journals) and a biography by F. W. H. Myers , but...

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.
Knight, David. The Age of Science: The Scientific World-View in the Nineteenth Century. Basil Blackwell, 1986.
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Owen, Alex. The Darkened Room: Women, Power, and Spiritualism in Late Nineteenth-Century England. Virago, 1989.
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Porter, Katherine H. Through a Glass Darkly: Spiritualism in the Browning Circle. Octagon, 1972.
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Gauld, Alan. A History of Hypnotism. Cambridge University Press, 1992.
389-90
Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray, 1997.
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“Society for Psychical Research”. Monstrous.com: Ghosts.

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