Increasingly, contemporary scholarship reveals the strong
connection between Victorian women and the world of the
nineteenth-century supernatural. Women were intrinsically bound to
the occult and the esoteric from mediums who materialised spirits
to the epiphanic experiences of the New Woman, from theosophy to
telepathy. This volume addresses the various ways in which
Victorian women expressed themselves and were constructed by the
occult through a broad range of texts. By examining the roles of
women as automatic writing mediums, spiritualists, authors,
editors, theosophists, socialists and how they interpreted the
occult in their life and work, the contributors in this edition
return to sensation novels, ghost stories, autobiographies, s?ances
and fashionable magazines to access the visible and invisible
worlds of Victorian life. The variety of texts analysed by the
authors in this collection demonstrates the many interpretations of
the occult in nineteenth-century culture and the ways that women
used supernatural imagery and language to draw attention to issues
that bore immediate implications on their own lives. Either by
catering for the fad of ghost stories or by giving public trance
speeches women harnessed the metaphorical and financial forces of
the supernatural. As the articles in this book demonstrate the
occult was after all a female affair. This book was published as a
special issue of Women's Writing.
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