Biographers have tended to adopt Robert Browning's scornful skepticism of the spiritualist movement, but it was not a fringe phenomenon. EBB
was, historian Alex Owen
argues, characteristic of those attracted to spiritualism by its deeply...
Intertextuality and Influence
Michèle Roberts
Apart from the helpfulness of those close to her, Roberts acknowledges here the scholarly work of Alex Owen
and Elaine Showalter
.
Roberts, Michèle. In the Red Kitchen. Methuen, 1990.
prelims
She felt, too, that the book was influenced by the place where...
Literary responses
Anna Kingsford
More recently, literary scholar Alex Owen
has said that The Perfect Wayparalleled the achievement of Blavatsky
's Esoteric Buddhism.
Owen, Alex. The Place of Enchantment: British Occultism and the Culture of the Modern. University of Chicago Press, 2004.
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Timeline
1867: Spiritualism received a blow when rumours...
Building item
1867
Spiritualism received a blow when rumours of Kate Fox
's drinking problems reached England.
Owen, Alex. The Darkened Room: Women, Power, and Spiritualism in Late Nineteenth-Century England. Virago, 1989.
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Texts
Owen, Alex. The Darkened Room: Women, Power, and Spiritualism in Late Nineteenth-Century England. Virago, 1989.
Owen, Alex. The Place of Enchantment: British Occultism and the Culture of the Modern. University of Chicago Press, 2004.