Spiritualism and British society between the wars
Historians of modern British culture have long assumed that interest in spiritualism had faded by the end of the Great War. Jenny Hazelgrove challenges this assumption and shows how spiritualism grew between the wars and became part of the fabric of popular culture.
Print Book, English, 2000
Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2000
History
294 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
9780719055591, 9780719055584, 0719055598, 071905558X
1170139948
Spiritualism after the Great War; Catholic connections; virgin mothers and warrior maids; possession, dissociation and unseen families; mothers. mediums and vampires; frustration, repression and deviant desire; the dual agenda of psychical research; becoming a medium.