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The eight key titles re-published in this set make important texts
accessible once again, and provide a comprehensive overview of this
influential Victorian phenomenon. Available as an eight-volume set
or as individual volumes.
The fame of Augustus De Morgan (1806 1871), a brilliant
mathematician and logician, has been eclipsed by that of his son,
the celebrated ceramicist William De Morgan. However, as readers of
his Memoir will discover, De Morgan senior enjoyed an equally
distinguished, if turbulent, career. Collated by his wife, and
published in 1882, nine years after his death, the Memoir of
Augustus de Morgan chronicles the varied life of an
under-appreciated genius. Biographical narrative is interleaved
with his own correspondence, revealing a humorous and warm
personality as well as an exceptional intellect. As the Pall Mall
Gazette told its readers, 'quaint and original to the last, every
word of De Morgan's correspondence is well worth reading'. Although
rich in detail about his work and publications, Sophia Elizabeth's
affectionate account of her husband is also sympathetic and witty,
making it an ideal introduction to one of Britain's greatest minds.
Sophia Elizabeth De Morgan (1809-1892) was the wife of the
mathematician and logician Augustus De Morgan and mother of the
celebrated ceramicist William De Morgan. In this book, published in
1863, De Morgan, writing as 'CD' - with a preface by her husband
signed as 'AB' - acknowledges that alleged spirit manifestations
have faced much criticism and scepticism, but argues that it was a
little-understood phenomenon that merited further investigation.
She spent a decade on this research, and focused on the role of the
mediums, people who were believed to communicate with the spirit
world. She was aided in this by the arrival of a medium who lived
with the De Morgan family for six years. Her chapters also examine
in depth the process of dying and ideas about the afterlife. A
first-hand account of the nineteenth-century spiritualist world,
this book provides a fascinating glimpse into Britain's changing
religious landscape.
Sophia Elizabeth De Morgan (1809-1892) was the wife of the
mathematician and logician Augustus De Morgan and mother of
ceramicist William De Morgan. In Threescore Years and Ten,
completed in 1887, edited by her daughter Mary, and published in
1895, De Morgan recounts her formative early years and the
influence of her father, the social reformer William Frend. She
followed in his footsteps and fought for many causes, including
higher education for women and prison reform. She was also an early
animal rights activist and campaigned against vivisection.
Throughout her life, De Morgan encountered some of the leading
writers and thinkers of the time - she was introduced to William
Blake when she was a child and many years later found herself the
neighbour of Thomas Carlyle. De Morgan's reflections on her life
offer an insight into the intellectual world of a Victorian social
reformer.
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