phoenix

[jacket image]
[Add to cart]
or
Print an order form.

Alex Owen

The Darkened Room

Women, Power, and Spiritualism in Late Victorian England

344 pages, 11 halftones  6 x 9  © 1989

Paper $21.00

ISBN: 9780226642055   Published April 2004

Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: The book, the spirits, and the historians
1. Power and Gender: The Spiritalist Context
2. Victorian Spiritualism and the Spiritualist Woman
3. Star Mediumship: Light and Shadows
4. At Home with the Theobald Family
5. Women Healers in the Spiritualist World
6. Medicine, Mediumship and Mania
7. Louisa Lowe's Story
8. Spiritualism and the Subversion of Femininity
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Subjects



You may purchase this title at these fine bookstores. Outside the USA, consult our international information page.

Questions about this title? email sales@press.uchicago.edu.