Life and Experiences of Edmund Dawson Rogers

About this book

Edmund Dawson Rogers was there as private séances became public controversy. His recollections follow the people, institutions and arguments involved in the growth of organised Spiritualism in Britain.

Rogers writes about meetings, investigators, supporters and sceptics from within the movement itself. The resulting history contains practical details often missing from grand accounts of psychic phenomena: disagreements, organisational work and the slow effort to build a readership. His conviction is unmistakable, and so is the extent to which Spiritualism depended on ordinary people creating journals, committees and networks around extraordinary claims.