1859 1st Edition , With Provenance
SPIRITUALISM AND THE AGE WE LIVE IN
By Catherine Crowe
Catherine Crowe (1790–1872) was an English novelist, translator, and pioneer investigator of psychic phenomena. Her Night-Side of Nature (1848) and Spiritualism, and the Age We Live In (1859) profoundly influenced Victorian Spiritualism, psychical research, and Gothic fiction. She anticipated later thinkers of the Society for Psychical Research, inspired authors such as Sheridan Le Fanu and Henry James, and provided source material cited by early Theosophists and later Arthur Conan Doyle. Rediscovered by modern feminist and cultural historians, Crowe is now recognised as a pivotal figure linking Romantic mysticism, women’s authorship, and the scientific study of the supernatural.
Born Catherine Stevens in Borough Green, Kent, England, around 1790; Catherine Crowe’s name is often remembered for a notorious mental breakdown in Edinburgh in February 1854: Newspapers reported that she was found wandering the streets naked, claiming she had become invisible. She died in 1872 in Folkestone, Kent
Format: Hardcover, Crown octavo (8vo 5+3⁄8 × 8 137 × 203),Pages 143
Language: English
Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Published By: T.C. Newby, London
Synopsis: A very RARE and interesting book written by Catherine Crowe...." Spiritualism, and the Age We Live In " Catherine Crowe (1790–1872) was a successful author of fiction, non-fiction and plays, who moved in literary circles and corresponded with the prominent authors of her day, including W. M. Thackeray and Harriet Martineau. Her interest in the supernatural and the spiritual dimension, and her frustration with the narrow-mindedness of her generation, are evident in this work, first published in 1859. A strong believer in the possibilities of spiritual planes and of forces beyond contemporary human knowledge, she suggests that much is still unknown to the human race, and that the advance of scientific materialism may hinder the search for spiritual insight. Unusually for her time, Crowe also questions the literal truth of the Bible, suggesting metaphorical interpretations of scripture, and asks how modern miracles or prophets might be recognised, in a society so closed to the possibility of the physically impossible.
Provenance: Britten Memorial Library bookplate dated 1931 (“Purchased”), linking this copy to Emma Hardinge Britten’s Spiritualist circle. Emma Hardinge Britten (1823 – 1899) Spiritualist medium, lecturer, author, and co-founder of the Theosophical and Spiritualist movements
SKU: BTETM0002633
Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5, L: 30, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 2Kg
1859 1st Edition , With Provenance
SPIRITUALISM AND THE AGE WE LIVE IN
By Catherine Crowe
Catherine Crowe (1790–1872) was an English novelist, translator, and pioneer investigator of psychic phenomena. Her Night-Side of Nature (1848) and Spiritualism, and the Age We Live In (1859) profoundly influenced Victorian Spiritualism, psychical research, and Gothic fiction. She anticipated later thinkers of the Society for Psychical Research, inspired authors such as Sheridan Le Fanu and Henry James, and provided source material cited by early Theosophists and later Arthur Conan Doyle. Rediscovered by modern feminist and cultural historians, Crowe is now recognised as a pivotal figure linking Romantic mysticism, women’s authorship, and the scientific study of the supernatural.
Born Catherine Stevens in Borough Green, Kent, England, around 1790; Catherine Crowe’s name is often remembered for a notorious mental breakdown in Edinburgh in February 1854: Newspapers reported that she was found wandering the streets naked, claiming she had become invisible. She died in 1872 in Folkestone, Kent
Format: Hardcover, Crown octavo (8vo 5+3⁄8 × 8 137 × 203),Pages 143
Language: English
Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Published By: T.C. Newby, London
Synopsis: A very RARE and interesting book written by Catherine Crowe...." Spiritualism, and the Age We Live In " Catherine Crowe (1790–1872) was a successful author of fiction, non-fiction and plays, who moved in literary circles and corresponded with the prominent authors of her day, including W. M. Thackeray and Harriet Martineau. Her interest in the supernatural and the spiritual dimension, and her frustration with the narrow-mindedness of her generation, are evident in this work, first published in 1859. A strong believer in the possibilities of spiritual planes and of forces beyond contemporary human knowledge, she suggests that much is still unknown to the human race, and that the advance of scientific materialism may hinder the search for spiritual insight. Unusually for her time, Crowe also questions the literal truth of the Bible, suggesting metaphorical interpretations of scripture, and asks how modern miracles or prophets might be recognised, in a society so closed to the possibility of the physically impossible.
Provenance: Britten Memorial Library bookplate dated 1931 (“Purchased”), linking this copy to Emma Hardinge Britten’s Spiritualist circle. Emma Hardinge Britten (1823 – 1899) Spiritualist medium, lecturer, author, and co-founder of the Theosophical and Spiritualist movements
SKU: BTETM0002633
Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5, L: 30, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 2Kg
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