Episode 105: Layers (ad-free) (Patreon)

We love to simplify things. Easy is better than complex, after all, and simple things are easy to understand. Sadly, though, the people around us are far from simple; they are complex and layered, with deep, hidden stories just waiting to be discovered.

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Further Reading

1. K.M. Goldney, “General Introduction,” Crookes and the Spirit World, collected by R. G. Medhurst (London: Souvenir Press, 1972).
2. William H. Brock, William Crookes (1832–1919) and the Commercialization of Science (London: Routledge, 2016).
3. Alex Owen, The Darkened Room: Women, Power, and Spiritualism in Late Nineteenth Century England (London: Virago Press, 1989).
4. Tatiana Kontou, Spiritualism and Women’s Writing: From the Fin de Siecle to the Neo-Victorian (London: Routledge, 2009).
5. R.G. Medhurst and K.M. Goldney, “William Crookes and the Physical Phenomena of Mediumship,” PSPR 54.195 (March 1964).
6. William Crookes, Researches in the Phenomena of Spiritualism (J. Burns, 1874).
7. Florence Marryat, There Is No Death (London: Griffith Farran and Co., Ltd., 1892).
8. “FURTHER EXPERIMENTS” and “MISS FLORENCE COOK” in The Spiritualist 1.23, 15 July 1871, p.177.
9. “GROSS OUTRAGE AT A SPIRIT CIRCLE” and Letter by J.C. Luxmore in The Spiritualist 3.29, 12 Dec 1873, p. 461.
10. “SPIRIT FORMS,” The Spiritualist 3.30,19 Dec 1873, p. 478.
11. Ellen Crookes, letter to The Spiritualist, 25 June 1875, p. 312.
12. Thomas Blyton, letter to The Spiritualist 1.22, 15 June 1871.