International Association for the Preservation of Spiritualist and Occult Periodicals

   

Periodical: Spiritual News

Summary:   From Pat Deveney's database:

Spiritual News, The.
A Record of the Progress of Spiritualism in Great Britain.
1870–1871 Monthly
London, England. Language: English.
Editor: William Henry Harrison. Succeeded by: Spiritualist / Spiritualist Newspaper

1/1-5, December 1870-April 1871. 1 d., 4 pp. Harrison started this to ease the space pressure on the Spiritualist and to supply a spiritual journal at a penny a copy. The fifth issue announced the journal’s suspension but reserved the right to the name if the situation improved.

Other Sources:Harry Price Library, University of London; BL.
Issues:Spiritual News V1 N1 Dec 1 1870
Spiritual News V1 N2 Jan 1 1871
Spiritual News V1 N3 Feb 1 1871
Spiritual News V1 N4 Mar 1 1871
Spiritual News V1 N5 Apr 1 1871
Claude-Generated Themes:   Spiritual News was an early-1870s British Spiritualist newspaper, and its surviving first numbers read as almost undiluted movement news: circle notices, mediumship reports, and vivid dark-seance accounts, including an apport sitting at the celebrated Mrs. Guppy's where fruit - a banana, a cocoa-nut, a melon - materialized on request. Around this phenomenal core runs the mesmeric-clairvoyant vocabulary of the period (odic force, mesmerism, clairvoyance, trance), the shared substrate from which Victorian Spiritualism grew. It is a house sheet of the London seance world at the height of its physical-phenomena enthusiasm, more chronicle than doctrine.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:Spiritualism