Zenia the Vestal

About this book

Zenia travels across Europe with her mother and encounters teachers who claim knowledge of an invisible spiritual order. Her indifference to conventional courtship becomes part of a search for what the novel calls the law of vibrations.

Margaret B. Peeke's occult romance follows encounters with initiates, admirers and the promise of divine love. Also published as Zenia the Vestal; or, The Problem of Vibrations, the story blends travel, esoteric instruction and the personal dilemmas of a young woman expected to follow an ordinary social path. The novel is very much a product of the 1890s, when hidden orders and spiritual development furnished writers with new kinds of romantic adventure.