Before the Ouija board: William Rossetti's diary gives an insight into Victorian séances
The journal of a Pre-Raphaelite writer might help explain today’s turn to spiritualism.
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The journal of a Pre-Raphaelite writer might help explain today’s turn to spiritualism.
From the blog of Ariella Nadel at The Times of Israel
Anarchist, journalist, drama critic, advocate of birth control and free love, Emma Goldman was one of the most famous - and notorious - women in the early twentieth century. Against a dramatic backdrop of political argument, show trials, imprisonment, and tempestuous romances, Goldman chronicles the epoch that she helped shape: the reform movements of the Progressive Era, the early years of and later disillusionment with Lenin's Bolshevik experiment, and more.
A lecture by Harold White Fellow, Angus Trumble, at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 16 April, 2003
"Morning and evening Maids heard the goblins cry: Come buy our orchards fruits, Come buy, come buy…." Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) was the...