Out of the Shadows

The Resource Out of the Shadows
Label
Out of the Shadows
Statement of responsibility
Emily Midorikawa
Creator
Contributor
Subject
Language
eng
Summary
Queen Victoria's reign was an era of breathtaking social change, but it did little to create a platform for women to express themselves. But not so within the social sphere of the s?ance?a mysterious, lamp-lit world on both sides of the Atlantic, in which women who craved a public voice could hold their own. Out of the Shadows tells the stories of the enterprising women whose supposedly clairvoyant gifts granted them fame, fortune, and, most important, influence, as they crossed rigid boundaries of gender and class as easily as they passed between the realms of the living and the dead. The Fox sisters inspired some of the era's best-known political activists and set off a transatlantic s?ance craze. While in the throes of a trance, Emma Hardinge Britten delivered powerful speeches to crowds of thousands. Victoria Woodhull claimed guidance from the spirit world as she took on the millionaires of Wall Street before becoming America's first female presidential candidate. And Georgina Weldon narrowly escaped the asylum before becoming a celebrity campaigner against archaic lunacy laws. Drawing on diaries, letters, rarely seen memoirs and texts, Emily Midorikawa illuminates a radical history of female influence that has been confined to the dark until now
Nature of contents
dictionaries

Context

Context of Out of the Shadows

Work of

Structured data from the Bibframe namespace is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License by Manchester City Library. Additional terms may apply to data associated with third party namespaces.