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Abyssinia, 76 Abyss of Reason, 6 academic ridicule, 7–10 Accounts of Seances, 51, 53 Adam and Eve, 31 Adams, Kathleen, 107 Adshead,W.P., 112, 126 Affair,The, 113 affinities, doctrine of, 30 Africa, 80 African-American traditions, 201 Aguirre, Manuel, 2, 4, 75; On Victorian Horror, 4, 75 Ahmad,Aijaz, 209 alcohol, 134–35, 146, 154, 165–66, 169, 178, 200; abuse of, 151, 156, 210; delirium tremens, 135; drugs and, 130, 152–53, 159, 191, 193; fetal alcohol syndrome, 170; morality and, 155; tobacco and, 190 alcohol and the body, 153–56 alcoholism, 174; Kate Fox’s, 177 Aldwyn, Henry, 59–60, 67 altered states, reference to, 16, 40, 153 Altick, Richard, 153 America, 80, 160, 210;Tainted Origins, Madness and Drink and, 160–62 Anderson, F.G.H., 43, 157, 209–10 aphrodisiacal spirits, 156–60 Armstrong,William, 85, 115–17, 206 Ashton,Thomas, 117 At Chrighton Abbey, 69 At the End of the Passage, 136, 159, 193 At the Heart of the Empire, 79, 207 Australia, 109, 208 ayahs, 132 Bacon, Francis, 129 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 203; Rabelais and His World, 203 Barchester Tower, 50 Bargen, Doris G., 202 Barnum, P.T., 161, 208 Barrera, Eduardo Herrera, 211 Barrow, Logie, 5, 8–9, 36, 99, 192, 204; Independent Spirits, 6 Barthes, Roland, 208 Bayard, Dr., 168 “Beam of Day,” The Medium and the Daybreak , 119 bearded ladies, 116–21 Bennett, Gillian, 7 Berry, Catherine, 14, 115, 202; Experiences in Spiritualism, 202 Besant,Annie, 93, 207 Bhabha, Homi K., 76, 79–80, 89, 124, 207; Of Mimicry and Man, 76, 79 Blackburn, Charles, 43–45, 203 Blackburn Times, 111, 127 “Black Katie,” 86, 92. See also Katie King. Blair Witch Project,The, 3 Blavatsky, Madame, 210 Boone, Joseph Allen, 205 Borg, Marcus, 201 Braddon, Mary Elizabeth, 62, 69 Brandon, Ruth, 7–8, 34, 36, 164, 167, 177, 210; The Spiritualists, 7 Brevitt, James, 154 i n d e x 2 2 5 Briggs, Julia, 59 Britain, séances in, 11. See also séances. Britten, Emma Hardinge, 203; figure, 13; library, 37, 45 Broad, C.D., 204; papers of, 209–10 Broadlands Conference, 52, 55, 205 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 5 Boyce, D. George, 76 Burd,Van Akin, 205 Buker, Eloise A., 10; Talking Feminist Politics , 13 Burdens of History, 207 Burns, James, 97–98, 105–06, 110–11, 113–14, 119, 121, 126, 153, 156, 158, 165, 172, 208 Burton,Antoinette, 78–79, 93 Butler, Judith, 183–84, 199, 210–11; The Psychic Life of Power, 183, 210 cabinet, 43, 46, 190; as sexual metaphor, 40 Cambridge University, 209–10 Canon Alberic’s Scrap-book, 147 Capes, Bernard, 129, 141; An Eddy on the Floor, 129, 141, 193 Carlyle,Thomas 171 Carroll, Bret, 161 cartoon, figure, 7 Child Loving, 105 children, dark, 103–108 cholera, 137, 145, as establishment plot to kill the poor, 146 Christianity, 63 Christian Science, 164 Church,T. Ross, 60 circle, 11, 191; all-women, 53 City of Dreadful Delights, 208 civil disobedience, 80 Cixous, Helene, 111, 203, 210; Sorties, 203 Cliff, Eliza, 204 Coleman, Benjamin, 169 Collins,Wilkie, 1, 206; Miss Jeromette and the Clergyman, 1, 206 colonialism, 80, 94, 104, 136 Communist Manifesto, 97 confessions, 171–73 Confessions of a Medium, 30, 157 Cook and Crookes, 204 Cook, Kate, 50, 56, 58 Cook, Florence, 13–15, 22–24, 31–35, 37, 41–47, 50, 55–56, 81, 86, 90–91, 100, 152, 156–57, 169, 179, 182, 184, 195, 202–05; extramarital affair with William Crookes, 37–46; figure, 3–4, 7; her Black Katie, 103; marriage and spiritual world, 44; marriage to Edward Elgie Corner, 43; physical differences from Katie, 41. See Katie King. Corner, Edward Elgie, 15, 45; marriage to Florence Cook, 43 Corner, Nina, 43 cost of mediumship, 110–11 Cottam, Daniel, 6 Cowilshaw, Brian, 201 Cowper,William, 181, 192, 205–06; Mrs. Cowper, 53 Cowper-Temple,William Francis, diaries of, 50 Cox, Michael, 49; Twelve Victorian Ghost Stories, 49 Cox, Serjeant, 102 Croker, Bithea Mary, 130, 133; The Khitmatgar , 133, 159, 193 Crookes,William, 5, 13–15, 21, 27, 35, 38–45, 47, 51, 158, 169, 177, 203–04; extramarital affair with Florence Cook, 37–46; figure, 4–6; Miss Florence Cook’s Mediumship, 21 Crossing, 211; The Phenomena of Spiritualism , 41; Researches in the Phenomena of Spiritualism, 14 Crow Dog, Leonard, 211 d’Albe, Fournier, 5, 27, 38, 177 Dallas, H.A., 179 Dante, 176 Darkened Room,The, 6, 118, 161 Darwin, Charles, 7 Davenport, Rueben...

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