Anna Kingsford
Her Life, Letters, Diary and Work

Written by her close friend and colleague, this 1896 publication details the life of physician and spiritualist Anna Kingsford.

Edward Maitland (Author)

9781108072731, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 20 January 2011

484 pages, 7 b/w illus.
21.6 x 14 x 2.7 cm, 0.61 kg

First published in 1896, this two-volume biography details the life of physician and spiritualist Anna Kingsford (1846–1888). Kingsford, one of the first women to obtain a degree in medicine, began her literary career at the age of thirteen and in her lifetime was known for campaigning against vivisection, involvement in the suffragette movement, and promotion of vegetarianism, as well as her spiritualist exploits. This biography was written by her friend and colleague, the spiritualist Edward Maitland (1824–97), who served as Kingsford's protector while she studied in Paris. At the time of its publication, the work was not well received; the main criticism directed towards the book was that it focused on Maitland's psychic experiences rather than on Kingsford herself. Volume 1 focuses on Kingsford's early life, Maitland's first meeting with her, their time in Paris and their first supernatural experiences together.

Preface
1. Early life
2. Our first acquaintance
3. Some account of myself
4. Mutual recognition
5. To end of 1875
6. Student life
7. Spiritual unfoldments
8. The celestial opened
9. A cloud of witnesses
10. Persecuted of Apollyon
11. The baffled sorcerer
12. Manifold experiences
13. The first and last of the gods
14. Warnings and instructions
15. Floods of light
16. Close of student course
17. Among the astrals
18. Conversations with the genii
19. Continuous illuminations.

Subject Areas: History of ideas [JFCX]