People from the Other Side | Free Book
A History of Spiritualism
Kate, Leah, and Margaret Fox were three young sisters living in
upstate New York in the middle of the 19th century who discovered an
apparent ability to communicate with spirits. When this became known,
they quickly found themselves at the core of an emerging spiritualist
movement, and their public séances in New York City were attended by
many. The movement gained considerable popularity, although Margaret
would later admit to producing rapping noises by cracking her toe
joints and both she and Kate eventually died in poverty. Spiritualism
nonetheless became something of a Victorian phenomenon, both in the
United States and Britain, with figures such as James Fenimore Cooper
and Arthur Conan Doyle amongst its adherents. This account of the
lives of the Foxes is a fascinating and informative look at the birth
and early days of spiritualism, a belief that remains popular to this
day.
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