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• 1 2016-11-23T12:40:18-05:00 Experiences in Spiritualism: Seances at Home 3 plain 2016-12-16T21:05:58-05:00 Catherine Berry’s lengthy book, Experiences in Spiritualism (1876) is similar to Houghton’s work in that it is a composite text of first-hand experiences as a medium and letters written to spiritualist magazines by Berry and her fellow believers. The excerpt below is taken from Berry’s chapter on “Seances at Home,” in which she describes private séances. Of particular interest is the way that Berry herself acknowledges the blurring of the boundaries between public and private even in the domestic séance. Speaking more specifically to the home environment, in Berry’s excerpt the domestic location and its associated objects (like a piano) play key roles in the spirit activity.