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Spirits Move Me: 19th-century Mediums

Spirits Move Me: 19th-century Mediums

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Victorian America was a very haunted place, and by mid-century the Spiritualist movement was sweeping through it. People went in droves to see mediums - who were mostly women - to try and reach the spirits of their loved ones just beyond the veil. They made tables levitate, answered philosophical questions in front of huge crowds, and found a kind of fame and attention that suffragists would have killed for.

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Spirits Move Me: 19th-century Mediums

Spirits Move Me: 19th-century Mediums

Kate J. Armstrong