Keeping in Touch: An Anthology of the Victorian SeanceMain MenuIntroductionFurther ReadingI - Spiritualism and Its BelieversII - Ambivalent SkepticsIII - Scoffers and FraudsIV - The Private SeanceV - The Public SeanceWork CitedMegan Brueningb3bbdc9bd1941527cc9ff27849ef1a643abdd7d3
12016-11-23T12:50:53-05:00A Seance with the Progressive Spiritualists3plain2016-12-16T21:10:09-05:00Published in The Sphinx in 1869, “A Séance with the Progressive Spiritualists” contains the report of a journalist who attended a spiritualist meeting that ended with a public séance conducted by a female medium. Of particular interest is the discomfort the séance audience felt when the medium became the vessel for a male, low-class spirit, demonstrating concern over how class and gender boundaries were broken in general and in public spaces.