The Darkened Room
Women, Power, and Spiritualism in Late Victorian England
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Table of Contents

Contents
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
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
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