Incidents in My Life
Second Series

The nineteenth-century spiritualist and medium D. D. Home responds to his critics in this colourful 1872 publication.

Daniel Dunglas Home (Author)

9781108025959, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 10 March 2011

388 pages
21.6 x 14 x 2.2 cm, 0.49 kg

In 1872, D. D. Home (1833–1886), the famous spiritualist and medium, published this sequel to his controversial autobiography Incidents in My Life (1863). In it, Home responds to the criticism levelled at him by reviewers, sceptics and detractors including William Thackeray and Robert Browning. He describes his expulsion from Rome in 1864 owing to the authorities' fear of 'sorcery', opposition from French and American clergy in 1865, a visit to Russia, and the opening of the 'Spiritual Athenaeum' in London in 1867. He also reports numerous séances and spiritual manifestations. The book ends with documents relating to an 1868 lawsuit over a large sum of money given to Home by a wealthy widow, Jane Lyon. Although a promised third volume never appeared, the present book provides fascinating insights into the phenomenon of spiritualism and its attendant controversies during the Victorian period.

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]