Incidents in My Life 2 Volume Set

The nineteenth-century spiritualist and medium D. D. Home records his colourful career and responds to his critics.

Daniel Dunglas Home (Author)

9781108025966, Cambridge University Press

Multiple-component retail product, published 10 March 2011

694 pages
25.2 x 33 x 7 cm, 1.22 kg

D. D. Home (1833–1886), the famous spiritualist and medium, here documents the extraordinary psychic events in his life. His autobiography was published in two parts (a promised third volume never appeared). The first, published in 1863, describes mysterious phenomena from his very first vision at the age of thirteen to the séances he held for the rich and famous in England, France, Italy and Russia. Home describes his personal life - the early death of his first wife, his subsequent financial difficulties, and his ongoing battle with tuberculosis. In the second volume, published in 1872, he responds to the criticism levelled at him by reviewers, sceptics and detractors including William Thackeray and Robert Browning. He also reports numerous séances and spiritual manifestations. Incidents in My Life presents fascinating insights into the phenomenon of spiritualism and its attendant controversies during the Victorian period.

Volume 1: Introductory chapter
1. Early life - I become a medium
2. Before the world
3. Further manifestations in America
4. In England
5. At Florence, Naples, Rome and Paris
6. In America. The Pressgang
7. 1857–8 - France, Italy, and Russia. Marriage
8. Russia, Paris and England
9. The 'Cornhill' and other narratives
10. Miraculous preservation. France and England
11. A diary and letter
12. In memoriam
Appendix. Volume 2: Preface
Introduction
1. Reviews and replies
2. Sir David Brewster
3. Expulsion from Rome
4. Sludge, the medium
5. Nice, America, Russia
6. Lecture
7. Spiritual Athenaeum
8. New manifestations
9. Elongation and compression
Chancery suit.

Subject Areas: British & Irish history [HBJD1]