Mrs Guppy takes a flight : a scandal of Victorian spiritualism
Whittington-Egan, Molly2015
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Many moons ago, in the high Victorian era, Mrs Guppy, the famous medium, was enjoying a sparkling success. Over the rooftops of Bloomsbury she sailed, was infused through lathe and plaster, and clambered on to tables in the darkness, magicking down showers of apports. She was a sensation. Sadly, though, she was a fake medium, or a cheat, as they called it then, deliberately and in full consciousness employing techniques and devices in order to deceive others that she was in contact with the dead. She was lucky, or exceptionally talented: no lurking sceptic ever managed to expose her, as was happening to her rivals. Her private life, obscured to those who believed in her, was curious, and based on fundamental lies. This is her story, finally exposed and researched by criminologist Molly Whittington-Egan.
Main title:
Mrs Guppy takes a flight : a scandal of Victorian spiritualism / Molly Whittington-Egan.
Author:
Whittington-Egan, Molly, author
Imprint:
Glasgow : NWP, 2015.Glasgow : NWP, 2015.
Collation:
228 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781906000875 (pbk)
Dewey class:
133.91092
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1731027