Behind the Veil
Richard Altick, 6 March 1986
The Other World: Spiritualism and Psychical Research in England 1850-1914
by Janet Oppenheim.
Cambridge, 503 pp., £25, March 1985,0 521 26505 3 Show More
by Janet Oppenheim.
Cambridge, 503 pp., £25, March 1985,
“... the Continent with a succession of séances, two or three of which were attended by Elizabeth and Robert Browning. On the first occasion, an unseen hand lowered a clematis wreath (laurel was hard to come by) on Elizabeth’s brow. She believed in spiritual manifestations, but Robert, though he shared her dislike of ... ”