This fascinating story of spirits and conjurers, skeptics and converts in the second half of 19th-century America is viewed through the lives of Kate and Maggie Fox, the sisters whose purported communication with the dead gave rise to the Modern Spiritualism movement--and whose recanting 40 years later is still shrouded in mystery.
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This fascinating story of spirits and conjurers, skeptics and converts in the second half of 19th-century America is viewed through the lives of Kate and Maggie Fox, the sisters whose purported communication with the dead gave rise to the Modern Spiritualism movement--and whose recanting 40 years later is still shrouded in mystery.
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Good. Minimal signs of wear. Corners and cover may show wear. May contain highlighting and or writing. May be missing dust jacket. May not include supplemental materials. May be a former library book.
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Near Fine in Fine jacket. Book 324 pages, frontis, acknowledgments, notes, select bibliography, index; 8vo, white/black boards. Near fine, remainder mark bottom edge, light shadow margin last page index; dust jacket fine.
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Very good in very good jacket. 336 pages. Illus., notes, selected bibliography, index, front DJ flap price clipped. Signed by the author. Is it really possible to talk with the dead? As much as modern America is familiar with mediums, this question still generates passionate opinions from believers and skeptics alike. So one can only imagine the stir that the Fox sisters created in 1848 when they claimed to hear a ghost rapping on the wall of their Hydesville, New York rental house bedroom. The sisters soon discovered that the ghost would tap answers to specific questions.
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