Books, Articles, and Links by
Spiritualists or about Spiritualism
1. Older Books Online at the Making of America Website (Michigan)
[At the MOA site, browse by the last name of author (except as noted at
the bottom of this list)]
Angell, J. B. Why I am a spiritualist, and why I am not an orthodox. Red Bank, NJ, 1872.
Barrett, Joseph Osgood. Looking beyond: a souvenir of love to the bereft of every home. Boston, 1871.
-----. The spiritual pilgrim: a biography of James M. Peebles. Boston, 1872.
Beecher, Charles. A review of the “spiritual manifestations.” Read before the Congregational association of New York and Brooklyn. New York, 1853.
Berg, Joseph Frederick. Spirit rappings a fraud: a lecture, delivered December 16th, 1852. Philadelphia, 1853.
Brownson, Orestes Augustus. The spirit-rapper; an autobiography. Boston, 1854.
Cahagnet, Louis Alphonse. The celestial telegraph; or, Secrets of the life to come, revealed through magnetism; wherein the existence, the form, and the occupations, of the soul after its separation from the body are proved by many years’ experiments, by the means of eight ecstatic somnambulists, who had eighty perceptions of thirty-six deceased persons of various conditions: a description of them, their conversation, etc., with proofs of their existence in the spiritual world. New York, 1851. [Trans. from the original French Magnétisme: arcanes de la vie future dévoilés: ou, l’existence, la forme, les occupations de l’ame après sa separation du corps. Paris, 1848.]
Cary, Alice. The poetical works of Alice and Phoebe Cary, with a memorial of their lives by Mary Clemmer. New York, 1887.
Chase, Warren. The life-line of the Lone One; or, Autobiography of the world’s child. Boston, 1857.
Child, Asaph Bemis. Whatever is, is right. Boston, 1860.
Clark, Uriah. Plain guide to spiritualism. A handbook for skeptics, inquirers, clergymen, believers, lecturers, mediums, editors, and all who need a thorough guide to the phenomena, science, philosophy, religion and reforms of modern spiritualism. Boston, 1863.
Clements, S. The standard for trying the spirits and their revelations, determined and applied. Two discourses, delivered in the M. E. Church in Port Huron, Michigan, April 15 and 22, 1860. Port Huron, 1860.
Cridge, Annie Denton. Man’s rights; or, How would you like it? Comprising dreams. Wellesley, MA: Mrs. E. M. F. Denton, 1870.
Daniels, J. W. Spiritualism versus Christianity; or, Spiritualism thoroughly exposed. New York, 1856.
Davis, Andrew Jackson. A stellar key to the summer land. pt. 1. Illustrated with diagrams and engravings of celestial scenery. Boston, 1868.
-----. Arabula; or, The divine guest. Containing a new collection of gospels. Boston, 1868.
-----. The approaching crisis: being a review of Dr. Bushnell’s course of lectures, on the Bible, nature, religion, skepticism, and the supernatural. Boston, 1870.
-----. The fountain; with jets of new meanings. Illustrated with one hundred and forty-two engravings. Boston, 1871.
-----. The great harmonia; being a philosophical revelation of the natural, spiritual, and celestial universe. 5 vols. Boston, 1850-61.
-----. The magic staff; an autobiography of Andrew Jackson Davis. Boston, 1871.
-----. Memoranda of persons, places, and events; embracing authentic facts, visions, impressions, discoveries, in magnetism, clairvoyance, spiritualism. Also quotations from the opposition. [. . .] with an appendix, containing Zschokke’s great story of “Hortensia” vividly portraying the wide difference between the ordinary state and that of clairvoyance. Boston, 1868.
-----. Morning lectures. Twenty discourses, delivered before the Friends of progress in the city of New York, in the winter and spring of 1863. New York, 1865.
-----. The penetralia; being harmonial answers to important questions. Boston, 1868.
-----. The principles of nature, her divine revelations, and a voice to mankind. Boston, 1871 [rev ed. of New York, 1847].
Denton, William. Is spiritualism true? Boston, 1871.
-----. Radical discourses on religious subjects. Delivered in Music hall, Boston, Mass. Boston, 1872.
Faraday, Michael. “Observations on the education of the judgment. A lecture delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain,” 185-224 in Edward Youmans, ed. The culture demanded by modern life. New York: D. Appleton, 1873.
Fishbough, William. The Macrocosm and Microcosm; or, the Universe without and the Universe within; being an unfolding of the plan of creation and the correspondence of truths, both in the world of sense and the world of soul. New York, 1874.
Hardinge [Britten], Emma. Modern American spiritualism: a twenty years’ record of the communion between earth and the world of spirits. New York, 1870.
Hare, Robert. Experimental investigation of the spirit manifestations, demonstrating the existence of spirits and their communion with mortals. Doctrine of the spirit world respecting heaven, hell, morality, and God. Also, the influence of Scripture on the morals of Christians. New York, 1855.
Home, Daniel Dunglas. Incidents in my life. New York, 1864.
Horn, Henry J., ed. Strange visitors: a series of original papers, embracing philosophy, science, government. By the spirits of Irving, Willis, Thackery and others now dwelling in the spirit world. Dictated through a clairvoyant, while in an abnormal or trance state. Boston, 1871.
Howitt, William. The history of the supernatural in all ages and nations, and in all churches, Christian and pagan: demonstrating a universal faith. Philadelphia, 1863.
Hull, Moses. The question settled. A careful comparison of Biblical and modern spiritualism. New York, 187-
Kellogg, Daniel B. Autobiography of Dr. D. B. Kellogg; or, Explanation of clairvoyance. Ann Arbor, 1869.
Lathrop, George A. What is spiritualism? An address delivered before the Society of spiritualists, at Penny’s Hall, in the city of East Saginaw, Mich., on the celebration of their twenty-third anniversary. Also, a subsequent address ... on the question of what benefit is spiritualism to man. East Saginaw, 1871.
Lawrence, James. Angel voices from the spirit world: glory to God who sends them. Essays taken indiscriminately from a large amount written under angel influence. Cleveland, 1874.
Lyon, William F. The hollow globe; or The world’s agitator and reconciler. A treatise on the physical conformation of the earth. Presented through the organism of M. L. Sherman, and written by Prof. Wm. F. Lyon. Chicago, 1871.
Mahan, Asa. Modern mysteries explained and exposed. Boston, 1855.
-----. The phenomena of spiritualism scientifically explained and exposed. New York, 1876.
McDonald, William. Spiritualism identical with ancient sorcery, New Testament demonology, and modern witchcraft; with the testimony of God and man against it. New York, 1866.
The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, as revised and corrected by the spirits. New York, 1861.
Noyes, John Humphrey. History of American socialisms. Philadelphia, 1870. “The Spiritualist Communities,” 564-576.
Owen, Robert Dale. The debatable land between this world and the next, with illustrative narrations. New York, 1872.
Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart. The gates ajar. Boston, 1869.
-----. Men, women, and ghosts. Boston, 1869.
Putnam, Allen. Flashes of light from the spirit-land, through the mediumship of Mrs. J. H. Conant. Boston, 1872.
Sargent, Epes. Peculiar; a tale of the great transition. New York, 1864.
-----. Planchette; or, The despair of science. Being a full account of modern spiritualism, its phenomena, and the various theories regarding it. With a survey of French spiritism. Boston, 1869.
-----. The proof palpable of immortality; being an account of the materialization phenomena of modern spiritualism. With remarks on the relations of the facts to theology, morals, and religion. Boston, 1876.
Smolnikar, Andreas Bernardus. Secret enemies of true republicanism, most important developments [!] regarding the inner life of man and the spirit world, in order to abolish revolutions and wars and to establish permanent peace on earth, also: the plan for redemption of nations from monarchical and other oppressive [!] speculations and for the introduction of the promised new era of harmony, truth and righteousness on the whole [!] globe. Springhill, PA, 1859.
Solentia, L. pseud.? The review of ancient and modern spiritualism. New York, 1862.
Sprague, Achsa White. The poet & other poems. Boston, 1864.
Stebbins, Giles Badger. Chapters from the bible of the ages. Detroit, 1872.
Swedenborg, Emanuel. Heaven and its wonders, the world of spirits, and hell: from things heard and seen, tr. from the Latin of Emanuel Swedenborg. Originally published at London, in Latin, 1758. New York, 1872.
-----. Arcana cœlestia. The heavenly arcana contained in the Holy Scriptures or word of the Lord unfolded beginning with the book of Genesis together with wonderful things seen in the world of spirits and in the heaven of angels. New York, 1870-73.
Sweet, Elizabeth, Mrs. The future life: as described and portrayed by spirits, through Elizabeth Sweet. Boston, 1870.
The rappers: or, The mysteries, fallacies, and absurdities of spirit-rapping, table-tipping, and entrancement. By a searcher after truth. New York, 1854.
Titcomb, Timothy. Letters to the Joneses, by Timothy Titcomb. New York, 1864. “To Salathiel Fogg Jones, Spiritualist—Concerning the faith and prospects of his sect of religionists,” 100-114.
Ward, Artemus. His Book; with many comic illustrations. New York, 1862. “Among the Spirits,” 41-46.
Watson, Samuel. The clock struck one, and Christian spiritualist: being a synopsis of the investigations of spirit intercourse by an Episcopal bishop, three ministers, five doctors, and others, at Memphis, Tenn., in 1855. Louisville, 1873.
Wilkinson, James John Garth. The human body and its connection with man, illustrated by the principal organs. Philadelphia, 1851.
Wilson, Ebenezer Vespasian. The truths of spiritualism. Immortality proved beyond a doubt by living witnesses. Chicago, 1876.
Wolfe, Napoleon Bonaparte. Startling facts in modern spiritualism. Chicago, 1875.
MOA has misindexed some of these titles.
When searching for the works listed above,
please note:
Davis, Andrew Jackson, The Magic Staff, is indexed as Elizabeth Sweet, The Future Life.
Elizabeth Sweet, The Future Life is indexed as Andrew Jackson Davis, The Magic Staff.
Davis, Andrew Jackson, Morning Lectures, is indexed as Andrew Jackson Davis, The Great Harmonia (Volume 1).
Davis, Andrew Jackson, The Great Harmonia (Volume 1) is indexed as Andrew Jackson Davis, Morning Lectures.
Fishbough, William, The Macrocosm and Microcosm, is indexed as Library of Mesmerism and Psychology.
Titcomb, Timothy, Letters to the Joneses, is indexed as Marietta Holley, Samantha among the Brethren.
2. Other Older Books (Not Online),
Influential at the Time of Their Publication,
and Still Useful for Their Historical
Information
Ballou, Adin. An Exposition of Views Respecting the Principal Facts, Causes and Peculiarities Involved in Spirit Manifestations; together with interesting phenomenal statements and communications. Boston: Bela Marsh, 1852.
Barrett, Harrison Delivan. Life Work of Mrs. Cora L. V. Richmond. Chicago: Hack & Anderson, 1895.
Britten, Emma Hardinge. Nineteenth-Century Miracles; or, spirits and their work in every country of the earth. New York: W. Britten, 1884.
Crawford, William Jackson. The Psychic Structures at the Goligher Circle. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1926.
Crowe, Catherine. The Night Side of Nature; or, Ghosts and Ghost-Seers. London: T. C. Newby, 1848, and New York: J. S. Redfield, 1850.
Davenport, Reuben Briggs. The Death-Blow to Spiritualism: being the true story of the Fox sisters, as revealed by authority of Margaret Fox Kane and Catherine Fox Jencken. New York: G. W. Dillingham, 1888.
Dods, John Bovee. Spirit Manifestations Examined and Explained. Judge Edmonds refuted; or, an exposition of the involuntary powers and instincts of the human mind. New York: De Witt & Davenport, 1854.
Doyle, Arthur Conan. History of Spiritualism. 2 volumes. New York: George H. Doran, 1926.
Edmonds, John Worth. Spiritualism. New York: Partridge & Brittan, 1853.
Farrington, Elijah. Revelations of a Spirit Medium; or, Spiritualistic Mysteries Exposed: a detailed explanation of the methods used by fraudulent mediums, by A. Medium. St. Paul, MN: Farrington & Company, 1891.
Houdini, Harry. A Magician among the Spirits. New York: Harper, 1924.
Houghton, Georgiana. Chronicles of the Photographs of Spiritual Beings and Phenomena Invisible to the Material Eye; Interblended with Personal Narrative. London: E. W. Allen, 1882.
Jung-Stilling, Johann Heinrich, Theory of Pneumatology: in reply to the question, what ought to be believed or disbelieved concerning presentiments, visions, and apparitions according to nature, reason, and Scripture. Trans. by Samuel Jackson and edited by George Bush. New York: J. S. Redfield, 1851 (first English language edition: London, 1834) of Theorie der geister-kunde, in einer natur-, vernunft- und bibelmässigen beantwortung der frage: Was von ahnungen, gesichten und geistererscheinungen geglaubt und nicht geglaubt werden müsse (1816).
Kerner, Justinus Andreas Christian. The Seeress of Prevorst: Being Revelations Concerning the Inner-Life of Man, and the Inter-Diffusion of a World of Spirits in the One We Inhabit. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1845. Trans. by Catherine Crowe from the original German Die seherin von Prevorst. Eröffnungen über das innere leben des menschen und über das hereinragen einer gesterwelt in die unsere. Stuttgart, 1829.
Mattison, Hiram. Spirit Rapping Unveiled! An exposé of the origin, history, theology and philosophy of certain alleged communications from the spirit world, by means of “spirit rapping,” “medium writing,” “physical demonstrations,” etc. New York: Mason Brothers, 1853.
McCabe, Joseph. Spiritualism; a popular history from 1847. London: T. F. Unwin, 1920.
Owen, Robert Dale. Footfalls on the Boundary of Another World. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Company, 1860.
Peebles, James Martin. Seers of the Ages: embracing spiritualism, past and present doctrines stated and moral tendencies defined. Boston: William White, 1869.
Podmore, Frank. Modern Spiritualism: a history and a criticism. 2 volumes. London: Methuen & Company, 1902. Republished as Mediums of the Nineteenth Century. 2 volumes. New Hyde Park, NY: University Books, 1963.
Putnam, Allen. Spirit Works; real but not miraculous. A lecture read at the City Hall in Roxbury, Mass. [. . .] September 21st, 1853. Boston: Bela Marsh, 1853.
Spicer, Henry. Sights and Sounds: the mystery of the day: comprising an entire history of the American “spirit” manifestations. London: T. Bosworth, 1853.
Tiffany, Joel. Spiritualism Explained: being a series of twelve lectures delivered before the New York conference of spiritualists, by Joel Tiffany, in January 1856. New York: Graham and Ellinwood, 1856.
Underhill, Ann Leah. The Missing Link in Modern Spiritualism. By A. Leah Underhill, of the Fox family. New York: T. R. Knox & Company, 1885.
3. Older Articles Online at the Making of America Website (Cornell)
[At the MOA site, locate issue desired within the periodical run]
“The Apple-Tree Table; or, Original Spiritual Manifestations.” Putnam’s Monthly Magazine, May 1856: 465-476.
“Are the Phenomena of Spiritualism Supernatural?” New Englander, May 1860: 381-411.
“Aut Diabolus Aut Nihil.” Galaxy, February 1877: 218-232.
Bacon, George B. “Some Kinds of Spiritual Quackery.” Scribners Monthly, January 1872: 336-345
“The Confessions of a Medium.” The Atlantic Monthly, December 1860: 699-715.
“Editorial Notes. Apocatastasis, or Progress Backwords.” Putnam’s Monthly Magazine, November 1854: 559-560.
Evans, Frederick W. “Autobiography of a Shaker. I-II.” The Atlantic Monthly, April 1869:415-425; May 1869: 593-605.
“The Final Science or Spiritual Materialism.” New Englander and Yale Review, February 1886: 192
Frothingham, Richard. “How the Spirits Tormented Me.” Galaxy, December 1867: 994-1005.
-----. “My Spiritualistic Experiences.” Galaxy, January 1868: 28-41.
Goodwin, Henry M. “Prof. Drummond’s ‘Natural Law in the Spiritual World.” New Englander and Yale Review, July 1891: 45-79.
Greeley, Rev. C. de Vere. “Spiritual Law in the Natural World.” New Englander and Yale Review, May 1888: 327-340.
“Half an Hour with Mr. Hume the Spiritualist.” Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, April 1859: 667-670.
Hammond, William A. “The Physics and Philosophy of Spiritualism.” North American Review, April 1870: 233-260.
James, Henry. “Spiritualism New and Old.” The Atlantic Monthly, March 1872: 358-362
“The Literature of Spiritualism.” New Englander, August 1858: 666-690.
“Modern Mysteries.” Putnam’s Monthly Magazine, October 1855: 436-437.
“Modern Necromancy.” North American Review, April 1855: 512-528.
“Modern ‘Spiritualism.’” Putnam’s Monthly Magazine, January 1853: 59-64.
Neal, John. “John Pierpont.” The Atlantic Monthly, December 1866: 649-665.
“The Necromancy of the Nineteenth Century.” New Englander, February 1854: 33-44.
Newton, Alonzo Eliot. “Why I Am a Spiritualist.” North American Review, December 1888: 654-668.
Owen, Robert Dale. “How I Came to Study Spiritual Phenomena.” The Atlantic Monthly, November 1874: 578-590.
-----. “Some Results from My Spiritual Studies.” The Atlantic Monthly, December 1874: 719-731.
Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart. “What Is a Fact?” The Atlantic Monthly, November 1880: 676-684.
“Pretended Spiritual Manifestations.” United States Democratic Review, April 1853: 355-368; May 1853: 425-429.
“Putney Perfectionism.” New Englander, April 1848: 177-193.
“The Rationalism of the Day - Andrew Jackson Davis - Spiritual Manifestations, Rappings, &c.” United States Democratic Review, March 1853: 268-273.
“Sampson. Spiritualism Tested,” New Englander and Yale Review, May 1860: 548-549.
“Science vs. Spiritualism,” Manufacturer and Builder, January 1878: 14.
“The Seybert Commission on Spiritualism,” New Englander and Yale Review, February 1888: 149-150.
“The Shakers.” Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, July 1857: 164-177.
“Spiritual Materialism.” Putnam’s Monthly Magazine, August 1854: 158-173.
“Spiritualism, a So-Called Scientific Question. An Open Letter to Prof. Hermann Ulrici, D.D., by Prof. A. Wundt, of Leipsic.” New Englander and Yale Review, July 1882: 495-516.
“Spiritualism Tested by Christianity.” New Englander, November 1857: 553-574.
“Spiritualism Tested by Science.” New Englander, May 1858: 225-270.
Tuttle, Hudson. “Isms. VI. – Spiritualism,” New England Magazine, June-July 1887: 56-63.
Vieux Moustache (pseud.). “En Rapport on the Rails,” Galaxy, May 1873: 686-692.
“Voices from the Spirit-Realm.” New Englander and Yale Review, March 1883: 164-182.
Whipple, Edwin P. “Some Recollections of Ralph
Waldo Emerson.” Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, September 1882: 576-587
(see p. 582)
Older Articles Online at the Making of America Website (Michigan)
[at
MOA website, browse by last name of author or title of article]
Bausman, William. “The Spiritualistic Drum,” Overland Monthly and Out West Magazine, January 1872: 61-64.
“Boston Notions,” Southern Literary Messenger, October 1861: 283-295.
Bowker, R. R. “Science and the Spirits,” Appleton’s Journal, 20 January 1872: 67-69.
Butterworth, H. “At the Hour of Death,” Appleton’s Journal, 24 December 1870: 765-767.
Butterworth, H. “Electrical Persons and Places,” Appleton’s Journal, 12 November 1870: 585-586.
Clark, Rev. Arthur M. “The Revolt from Calvinism in New England, Catholic World, March 1897: 803-809.
Duncan, David. “Dr. W. B. Carpenter, F. R. S.,” Appleton’s Journal, 22 April 1871: 464-466.
Earle, E. Lyell. “Lily Dale, the Haunt of Spiritualists. An Expose of Some So-Called Spirit Phenomena,” Catholic World, January 1899: 506-515.
Fairfield, Francis Gerry. “A Short Study of the Mysteries,” Appleton’s Journal, 21 August 1875.
-----. “The Strangest Things in Life,” Appleton’s Journal, 3 July 1875: 14-17.
Ferris, Rev. William H. “A Review of Modern Spiritualism, Part I,” Ladies’ Repository, January 1856: 46-52; Part II, February 1856: 88-92; Part III, March 1856: 139-144; Part IV, April 1856: 229-233.
Ferris, Rev. William H. “The Theology of Modern Spiritualism, Part I,” Ladies’ Repository, May 1856: 297-300; Part II, June 1856: 364-370.
“Gerald Massey,” Appleton’s Journal, 1 November 1873: 557-558.
Hamilton, E. M. “The Spirits and Simon Butterby,” Ladies’ Repository, August 1875: 115-121.
Loughead, Flora Haines. “Scientific Reports on Spiritualistic and Kindred Phenomena,” Overland Monthly and Out West Magazine, September 1890: 316-326.
Mears, Prof. J. W. “Recent Spiritualist Philosophy in France,” The Princeton Review, October 1874: 679-697.
“Northern Mind and Character,” Southern Literary Messenger, November 1860: 343-349.
“Owen on Spiritism,” Catholic World, March 1872: 803-812.
Seton, William. “Is Insanity Increasing?” Catholic World, December 1899: 321-327.
“Sic Itur ad Astra, Chapters I-III,” Catholic World, February 1880: 665-675.
“Spiritism and Spiritists,” Catholic World, June 1869: 289-302.
“Spiritual Manifestations,” Southern Literary Messenger, July 1853: 385-395.
“Spiritualism, Chapter I,” Catholic World, November 1873: 145-165; “Chapter II,” December 1873: 318-337; “Chapter III,” February 1874: 606-626.
Whedon, Rev. D. D. “Odylics and Spiritualistics,” Ladies’ Repository, November 1856: 641-645.
4. 19th-Century American Fiction
by or about Spiritualists
Available online at Indiana University, Digital
Library Program
Lyle Wright American Fiction Collection, 1850-1875
[At
IU Website, Browse by Author]
Anonymous. The Haunted School-house at Newburyport. Boston: Loring, 1873.
Anonymous [Kate Field, “ed.”] Planchette’s Diary. New York: J. S. Redfield, 1868.
Anonymous. Zillah, the Child Medium; a Tale of Spiritualism. New York: Dix, Edwards & Co., 1857. [same as Josephine Franklin, Rachel, below]
Brewster, Anne M. H. St. Martin’s Summer. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866. “Spiritism and Dreams,” 119-134.
Brownson, Orestes Augustus. The Spirit-Rapper: An Autobiography. London: C. Dolman, 1854.
Casseday, Davis B. The Hortons, or, American Life at Home. Philadelphia: J. S. Claxton, 1866. Chapter 10: 72-87.
Davis, Andrew Jackson. Tale of a Physician, or, The Seeds and Fruits of Crime. New York: American News Company, 1869.
Doten, Lizzie. My Affinity. Boston: William White, 1870
Emerson, N. S. The History of Dungeon Rock. Boston: Adams & Co., 1856
Farnham, Eliza Woodson Burhans. The Ideal Attained. New York: C. M. Plumb, 1865.
Folio, Fred. Lucy Boston, or Woman’s Rights and Spiritualism. New York: J. C. Derby, 1855.
Franklin, Josephine. Rachel. Boston: Thayer & Eldridge, 1860. [same as Anonymous, Zillah, the Child Medium, above]
Freelance, Radical. The Philosophers of Foufouville. New York: G. W. Carleton, 1868.
Horn, Henry J. Strange Visitors. New York: Carleton, 1869.
Locke, David Ross. The Struggles (Social, Financial and Political) of Petroleum V. Nasby. Boston: I. N. Richardson, 1872. “Petroleum V. Nasby Communes with Spirits,” 101-103.
Pease, Nettie M. The Golden Key, or, Mysteries Beyond the Veil. Chicago: Northwestern Publishing Co., 1871.
Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart. Men, Women, and Ghosts. Boston: Fields, Osgood, 1869.
Pinkerton, Allan. The Detective and the Somnambulist; The Murderer and the Fortune Teller. Chicago: W. B. Keen, Cooke, 1875.
Putnam, Ellen T. H. Where Is the City? Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1868. “Among the Spiritualists,” 227-258.
Reynolds, Elhanan Winchester. The Tangletown Letters. 2nd ed. Buffalo: Wanzer, McKim, 1856.
Sargent, Epes. Peculiar. New York: Carleton, 1864.
Trowbridge, J. T. Lucy Arlyn. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866.
Van Namee, J. William. The Faithless Guardian, or, Out of the Darkness into the Light. New York: American News Company, 1870.
Waisbrooker, Lois. Alice Vale. Rev. ed. Boston: William White, 1869.
Waisbrooker, Lois. Nothing Like It, or, Steps to the Kingdom. Boston: Colby and Rich, 1875.
5. Some Modern Books and Doctoral
Dissertations
Useful in the Study of
the History of 19th-Century
Spiritualism
Barrow, Logie. Independent Spirits: spiritualism and English plebeians, 1850-1910. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1986.
Basham, Diana. The Trial of Woman: feminism and the occult sciences in Victorian literature and society. New York: New York University Press, 1992.
Bednarowski, Mary Farrell. Nineteenth-Century American Spiritualism: an attempt at a scientific religion. Ph.D. University of Minnesota. Ann Arbor: UMI, 1973.
Berry, Thomas Edwin. Spiritualism in Tsarist Society and Literature. Baltimore, MD: Edgar Allan Poe Society, 1985.
Bjorling, Joel. Channeling: a bibliographic exploration. New York: Garland, 1992.
Bloom, Clive. The ‘Occult’ Experience and the New Criticism: Daemonism, Sexuality, and the Hidden in Literature. Sussex: Harvester Press, 1987.
Brandon, Ruth. The Spiritualists: the passion for the occult in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983.
Braude, Ann. Radical Spirits: spiritualism and women’s rights in nineteenth-century America. Boston: Beacon Press, 1989. 2nd edition, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001.
Brown, Burton Gates, Jr. Spiritualism in Nineteenth-Century America. Ph.D. Brown University. Ann Arbor: UMI, 1973.
Brown, Slater. The Heyday of Spiritualism. NewYork: Hawthorn Books, 1970.
Buescher, John B. The Other Side of Salvation: Spiritualism in the Nineteenth-Century Religious Experience. Boston: Skinner House, 2003.
Buse, Peter and Andrew Stott, eds. Ghosts: Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, History. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999.
Callahan, Terri Lynne. Lulu Hurst Atkinson, 1869-1850: The life of the “Georgia Wonder.” Georgia College and State University: M.A. Thesis, 1989.
Carlson, Maria. “No Religion Higher Than Truth”: A History of the Theosophical Movement in Russia, 1875-1922. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993.
Carroll, Bret E. Spiritualism in Antebellum America. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997.
Chapin, David. Exploring Other Worlds: Margaret Fox, Elisha Kent Kane, and the Antebellum Culture of Curiosity. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2004.
Charet, F. X. Spiritualism and the Foundations of C. G. Jung’s Psychology. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993.
Coale, Samuel. Mesmerism and Hawthorne: mediums of American romance. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1998.
Connor, Steven. Dumbstruck: a cultural history of ventriloquism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Cottom, Daniel. Abyss of Reason: cultural movements, revelations and betrayals. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991.
Cox, Robert S. Body and Soul: a sympathetic history of American spiritualism. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2003.
Crabtree, Adam. Animal Magnetism, Early Hypnotism, and Psychical Research, 1766-1925: an annotated bibliography. White Plains, NY: Kraus International Publications, 1988.
-----. From Mesmer to Freud: Magnetic Sleep and the Roots of Psychological Healing. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993.
Cross, Whitney R. The Burned-over District; the social and intellectual history of enthusiastic religion in western New York, 1800-1850. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1950.
Danielson, Susan Steinberg. Alternative Therapies: spiritualism and women’s rights in “Mary Lyndon; or, revelations of a life.” Ph.D. University of Oregon. Ann Arbor: UMI, 1990.
Delp, Robert Worley. The Harmonial Philosopher: Andrew Jackson Davis and the Foundation of Modern American Spiritualism. Ph.D. George Washington University, 1965.
Deveney, John Patrick. Paschal Beverly Randolph: a nineteenth-century Black American spiritualist, Rosicrucian, and sex magician. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997.
During, Simon. Modern Enchantments: The cultural power of secular magic. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002.
Fornell, Earl Wesley. The Unhappy Medium; spiritualism and the life of Margaret Fox. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1964.
Fuller, Robert C. Mesmerism and the American Cure of Souls. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982.
Gabay, Alfred J. Messages from Beyond: spiritualism and spiritualists in Melbourne’s golden age, 1870-1890. Carleton South, Victoria: Melbourne University Press, 2001.
Gaustad, Edwin S., ed. The Rise of Adventism: Religion and Society in Mid-Nineteenth-Century America. New York: Harper & Row, 1974.
Goldfarb, Russell M. and Clare R. Spiritualism and Nineteenth–Century Letters. London: Associate University Press, 1978.
Goldsmith, Barbara. Other Powers: the age of suffrage, spiritualism and the scandalous Victoria Woodhull. New York: HarperPerennial, 1999.
Goodwin, Laura A. Practical Faith and Faithful Practice: Religion and Reform among Congregational Friends, 1840-1852. M.A. Thesis, Sarah Lawrence College, 2000.
Guthrie, John J., Jr. et al. Cassadaga: the South’s oldest spiritualist community. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2000.
Hacking, Ian. Rewriting the Soul: multiple personality and the sciences of memory. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995.
Hall, Trevor H. The Medium and the Scientist: the story of Florence Cook and William Crookes. Buffalo, NY: Promethus, 1984.
Hamlin, Annemarie Elizabeth. Performance Spectacle or Spiritual Experience? Mesmerism, spiritualism and women in nineteenth-century American fiction. Ph.D. Claremont Graduate University. Ann Arbor: UMI, 1998.
Harries, Martin. Scare Quotes from Shakespeare: Marx, Keynes, and the language of reenchantment. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2000.
Hazen, Craig James. The Village Enlightenment in America: popular religion and science in the nineteenth century. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000.
Isaacs, Ernest Joseph. A History of Nineteenth-Century American Spiritualism as a Religious and Social Movement. Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison. Ann Arbor: UMI, 1975.
Kerr, Howard et al, eds. The Haunted Dusk: American supernatural fiction, 1820-1920. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1983.
Kerr, Howard. Mediums, and Spirit-Rappers, and Roaring Radicals; spiritualism in American literature, 1850-1900. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1972.
Kerr, Howard, and Charles L. Crow, eds. The Occult in America: new historical perspectives. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1983.
Kollar, Rene. Searching for Raymond: Anglicanism, spiritualism, and bereavement between the two world wars. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2000.
Kucich, John Joseph. The Color of Angels: spiritualism in American literary culture. Ph.D. Tufts University. Ann Arbor: UMI, 2001.
Kucich, John, and Dianne F. Sadoff, eds. Victorian Afterlife: postmodern culture rewrites the nineteenth century. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000.
Latham, J. E. M. Search for a New Eden: James Pierrepont Greaves (1777-1842), the sacred socialist and his followers. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999.
Lawton, George. The Drama of Life after Death; a study of the spiritualist religion. New York: H. Holt and Company, 1932.
Lease, Benjamin. Emily Dickinson’s Readings of Men and Books: Sacred Soundings. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1990.
Lehman, Neil Burkhart. The Life of John Murray Spear: spiritualism and reform in antebellum America. Ph.D. Ohio State University. Ann Arbor: UMI, 1973.
Lenker, Lisa M. Haunted Culture and Surrogate Space: a new historicist account of nineteenth-century American spiritualism. Ph.D. Stanford University. Ann Arbor: UMI, 1998.
Malinchak, Michele Daryl. Spiritualism and the Philosophy of Alfred Russel Wallace. Ph.D. Drew University. Ann Arbor: UMI, 1987.
McAllister, Catherine Amy. The Poetic Vision of Thomas Lake Harris: ‘An Epic of the Starry Heaven.’ Ph.D. SUNY-Buffalo. Ann Arbor: UMI, 1993.
McGarry, Molly K. Haunting Reason: spiritualism and the cultural politics of nineteenth-century America. Ph.D. New York University. Ann Arbor: UMI, 1999.
McHargue, Georgess. Facts, Frauds, and Phantasms: a survey of the spiritualist movement. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1972.
Melton, J. Gordon, ed. Encyclopedia of Occultism & Parapsychology. 4th edition. 2 volumes. Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1996.
Meyer, Birgit and Peter Pels, eds. Magic and Modernity: Interfaces of Revelation and Concealment. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003.
Moore, R. Laurence. In Search of White Crows: spiritualism, parapsychology, and American culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 1977.
Morita, Sally Jean. Modern Spiritualism and Reform in America. Ph.D. University of Oregon. Ann Arbor: UMI, 1995.
Nelson, Geoffrey. Spiritualism and Society. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969.
Oppenheim, Janet. The Other World: spiritualism and psychical research in England, 1850-1914. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.
O’Sullivan, Michael Anthony. A Harmony of Worlds: spiritualism and the quest for community in nineteenth-century America. Ph.D. University of Southern California, 1981.
Owen, Alex. The Darkened Room: women, power, and spiritualism in Victorian England. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990.
Peters, John Durham. Speaking into the Air: a history of the idea of communication. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.
Porter, Roy et al, eds. Women, Madness, and Spiritualism. New York: Routledge, 2003.
Ringbom, Sixten. The Sounding Cosmos: A Study in the Spiritualism of Kandinsky and the Genesis of Abstract Painting. Åbo: Åbo Akademi, 1970.
Rosenthal, Bernice Glatzer, ed. The Occult in Russian and Soviet Culture. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997.
Satter, Beryl. Each Mind a Kingdom: American women, sexual purity, and the New Thought movement, 1875-1920. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.
Schneider, Herbert Wallace, and George Lawton. A Prophet and a Pilgrim, being the Incredible History of Thomas Lake Harris and Laurence Oliphant; their sexual mysticisms and utopian communities. Amply documented to confound the skeptic. New York: Columbia Univesity Press, 1942.
Silver-Isenstadt, Jean. Shameless: The visionary life of Mary Gove Nichols. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.
Smith, Elise Lawton. Evelyn Pickering De Morgan and the Allegorical Body. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2002.
Stern, Madeleine B. The Pantarch: a biography of Stephen Pearl Andrews. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1968.
Swank, Scott Trego. The Unfettered Conscience: a study of sectarianism, spiritualism, and social reform in the New Jerusalem Church, 1840-1870. Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania. Ann Arbor: UMI, 1970.
Sword, Helen. Ghostwriting Modernism. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002.
Taves, Ann. Fits, Trances, & Visions: experiencing religion and explaining experience from Wesley to James. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999.
Taylor, Alice Felt. Freedom’s Ferment; phases of American social history to 1860. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1944.
Taylor, Eugene. Shadow Culture: Psychology and Spirituality in America. Washington, DC: Counterpoint, 1999.
Thurschwell, Pamela. Literature, Technology, and Magical Thinking, 1880-1920. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Tumber, Catherine. American Feminism and the Birth of New Age Spirituality: Searching for the Higher Self, 1875-1915. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002.
Weinstein, Sheri Michele. Mechanical Spirits, Magical Bodies: spiritualism and technologies of the real in American literature, 1850-1910. Ph.D. SUNY-Buffalo. Ann Arbor: UMI, 2000.
Weisberg, Barbara. Talking to the Dead: Kate and Maggie Fox and the Rise of Spiritualism. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2004.
White, Barbara. The Beecher Sisters. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003
Wrobel, Arthur, ed. Pseudo-Science and Society in Nineteenth-Century America. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1987.
Zaretsky, Irving I. Spirit Possession and Spirit Mediums in Africa and Afro-America: An Annotated Bibliography. New York: Garland Publishing, 1978.
6. A Few Current Novels with 19th Century Spiritualism as a Theme
Adrian, Chris. Gob’s Grief. New York: Broadway Books, 2000.
Byatt, A. S. “The Conjugal Angel” in Angels and Insects. London: Chatto & Windus, 1992.
Howar, Edward. Shadows and Elephants. Wellfleet, MA: Leapfrog Press, 2002.
Norman, Howard. The Haunting of L. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2002.
Szilagyi, Steve. Photographing Fairies. New York: Ballatine Books, 1992.
Waters, Sarah. Affinity. New York: Penguin/Riverhead, 2002.
7. Some Web Links Useful for
the Study of
Nineteenth-Century Spiritualism
Academic Essays on Related Subjects:
Mollie Fancher, the Brooklyn Enigma, by Anthony A. Walsh
Spectral Sexualities, by Molly McGarry
New World Orders: Millennialism in the Western Hemisphere, by Cathy Gutierrez
(Adobe Acrobat file)
Spirit Visions: 1999 Tanner Lectures on Human Values, by Marina Warner
(Adobe Acrobat file)
“Science Never Fails”: Popular Science and the Emergence of American Metaphysical
Religion, by Craig Hazen
Spirits of Modernity: Alfred Wallace, Edward Tylor and the Visual Politics
of Facts, by Peter Pels
Either/Or: Spiritualism and the Roots of Paranormal Science, by James E.
Beichler
What Mesmer Believed, by Dylan Morgan
Fashionable Occultism: Aleksandr Scriabin, by Marina Carlson
The Godbeites, by Ronald Walker
Edgar Cayce and Reincarnation: Past Life Readings as Religious Symbology,
by J. Gordon Melton
Wandering between Two Worlds: Victorian England’s Search for Meaning, by
Paul Roach
Vestiges and the Debate before Darwin, by John M. Lynch
Phalanx on a Hill: Responses to Fourierism in the Transcendentalist Circle,
by William H. Brock
The History of Phrenology on the Web, by John van Wyhe
More Bibliographies:
Sciences of Mind in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Alison Winter, selected
bibliography
Helen Sword’s bibliography for her course on Hauntology
Annotated bibliography of articles and essays on spiritualism by Helen
Sword
Older Primary Materials:
Archive of 19th- and 20th-century spiritualist books & articles at
spiritwritings.com
Articles archived at the International Survivalist Society
Lake Pleasant Campmeeting Guide for 1876
Swedenborg,
or The Mystic, by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The
Phenomena of Spiritualism, by Asa Mahan
Cora Richmond’s Address on Spiritualism to the World’s Parliament of Religion,
1893
Published Works of Cora Richmond
Mark Twain on Christian Science
Mark Twain on Spiritual Insanity
Phineas Parkhurst Quimby
Horace Dresser on the Quimby Manuscripts
Atlantis
the Antediluvian World, Ignatius Donnelly
The
Story of Atlantis, W. Scott-Elliot
The “Journal of Science” on Spiritualism, Alfred Russel Wallace
Some Reminiscences of Fifty Years’ Psychical Research, William Barrett
Hand-Book of the Oneida Community
Oahspe,
John Ballou Newbrough
The
Secret Doctrine, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Blavatsky Archives
Blavatsky on spiritualism
Clothed
with the Sun, Anna Kingsford
Woman,
Church and State, Matilda Joslyn Gage
Vril,
The Power of the Coming Race, Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Urantia
Centre Spirite Lyonnais Allan Kardec
There
Is No Death, Florence Marryat
The
Unknown Guest, Maurice Maeterlinck
The
Vital Message, Arthur Conan Doyle
The
New Revelation, Arthur Conan Doyle
A
Journey in Other Worlds, John Jacob Astor
Biographical Sketches:
Henry S. Olcott Biography, by Sarah Belle Doughterty
William Q. Judge Biography, by Kirby Van Meter
James M. Peebles Biography, by Linda Pendleton
Andrew Jackson Davis Biography, by T. Peter Park
Jesse Shepard Biography, by Clare Crane
Spiritualist biographical sketches, from the First Spiritual Temple, Brookline,
Massachusetts
Egbert Cleave’s Biographical Cyclopaedia of Homoeopathic Physicians and
Surgeons, by Sylvain Cazalet
Other Related Sites:
Jackie Gleason Collection at the University of Miami Library
Exhibition on the Occult from the Rare Books Collection of the Monash University
Library
Harriet Hosmer and Spiritualism, by Charles Colbert
Houdini Exposes Spiritualism, by Bob King
Doyle and the Piltdown Hoax, by Sidira Sisich
Una Puerta Dimensional al Mundo Espiritual, by Camilo Villanueva
Marx and Engels on Spiritualism and Theosophy, by Herman A. O. de Tollenaere
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