Gladys Leonard

Standard Name: Leonard, Gladys

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Cultural formation Una Troubridge
Spiritualism, or the belief that the dead can contact the living through mediums, became wildly popular in England during the First World War, when the idea of death was all-pervasive. Troubridge and Hall first became...
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...
Family and Intimate relationships Radclyffe Hall
After Ladye's death, RH and Una consulted a medium, Gladys Leonard , in an attempt to gain the dead woman's blessings for their relationship. These meetings continued for many years.
Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray, 1997.
140-1
Textual Production Una Troubridge
UT collaborated with Radclyffe Hall on the first part of a research paper, On a Series of Sittings with Mrs. Osborne Leonard. Hall now delivered it to a private council of Society for Psychical Research
Textual Production Radclyffe Hall
The second lecture, on 22 March 1918, was open to the public. Both lectures were based on RH 's experiences with her medium Gladys Leonard .
Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray, 1997.
144
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Una Troubridge
UT compares the mediumistic trance to hypnotism and telepathy. She records her observations of the trances undergone by Gladys Leonard (Mrs Osborne Leonard) . UT describes Leonard's trance as vacillating between a very normal normal...

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