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OTTOCENTO SPIRITUALISM: FROM ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING TO EVELYN DE MORGAN1
From: Browning Society Notes
Date: 20070301
Author:Peeters, Nic; Oberhausen, Judy
No city, perhaps from the days of the myth and miracles of the saints to the present hour, has had its daily life so characterized by these wonders as Florence; and the Hawthornes, Trollopes and Mrs. Browning were especially interested, during several months, in studying these psychic occurrences.2
The psychic occurrences referred to by Lilian Whiting in her description of Florence in the mid-nineteenth century have become an important part of the history of modern spiritualism. The Anglo-American artistic colony in Florence and the villas of nearby Bellosguardo was as enthusiastically caught ...
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