Porter, Katherine H. Through a Glass Darkly: Spiritualism in the Browning Circle. Octagon, 1972.
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Elizabeth Jenkins
EJ
's interest in spiritualism led her to write and publish a biography of the Victorian medium Daniel Dunglas Home
, The Shadow and the Light. A Defence.
Some sources give the date as...
Textual Production
Elizabeth Jenkins
The title comes from words by Daniel Dunglas Home
himself.
Jenkins, Elizabeth. The View from Downshire Hill. Michael Johnson, 2004.
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EJ
's foreword argues that no impartial person looking at the evidence can suppose that his levitation, his fire-handling, his telekinesis, his appearing in...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Elizabeth Jenkins
She describes how Tennyson, suffering from depression or nervous complaints, turned to Dr James Manby Gully and his celebrated Malvern water cure. She ranks Gully's medical abilities and his record of healing very highly. She...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Betty Miller
It dealt with Elizabeth Barrett Browning
's interest in spiritualism and her relationship with the medium Daniel Home
. BM
suggests the the major reason for Browning's spiritualist interest was the death by drowning of...
Timeline
9 April 1855: American Daniel Dunglas Home arrived in England...
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9 April 1855
American Daniel Dunglas Home
arrived in England as a self-proclaimed spiritualist missionary.
Porter, Katherine H. Through a Glass Darkly: Spiritualism in the Browning Circle. Octagon, 1972.