Otherworldly Impressions: Female Mediumship in Britain and America in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

• Main Author: Hoffmann, Giulia Katherine
• Other Authors: Zieger, Susan
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2014
• Subjects: Literature; Women's studies; History; Mediumship; Spiritualism; Transatlantic; Women; Arctic; Dickens
• Online Access: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9g93q923

This dissertation examines representations of female spirit mediumship during the rise of the Spiritualist movement in the mid–nineteenth through the early twentieth centuries. In private séances as well as public trance demonstrations, spirit mediums claimed to channel the dead and convey their mes...