Frank Podmore (1856 1910) published Modern Spiritualism in two
volumes in 1902. It was the first comprehensive history of the
Spiritualist movement. Podmore traces the historical development of
Spiritualism from its earliest origins in animal magnetism and
alchemy, to its apogee in the early nineteenth century and through
to its decline from 1870 onwards, which Podmore associated with the
growth of professional psychics and fraudsters. Volume 2, focusing
on English and American Spiritualism, sets the movement in its
cultural and intellectual context and includes a discussion of the
relationship of Spiritualism to science. The volume includes
invaluable accounts of scientific investigations into
materialisations, spirit photographs, clairvoyance, hallucinations
and automatism. It contains a summary and conclusion for the two
volumes. Podmore was a leading member of the Victorian Society for
Psychical Research and his work remains an indispensable source for
the modern-day historian of nineteenth-century Spiritualism and
occult practices.
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