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Stuart, Nancy Rubin The Reluctant Spiritualist: The Life of Maggie Fox
Harcourt 2005 0151010137 / 9780151010134 Hardcover Near fine Near fine Hardcover
New. Near fine, dusty with slight rubbing. In publisher's quarter bound boards in like dust jacket. Available in our UK premises for prompt dispatch worldwide.Stuart gives us the first modern biography of Maggie Fox, cofounder of spiritualism. After the two young Fox sisters, Maggie and Katy, claimed they had contacted spirits of the dead in 1848, a large religious movement coalesced around them. But that movement faded when, in 1888, Maggie Fox revealed that the ghostly communication had been a hoax. In this fast-paced biography, we follow Fox through the rise and fall of spiritualism, tracing her travels and lectures, her romance with Arctic explorer Elisha Kane and sister Katy's desperate slide into alcoholism. Stuart argues that, despite its fraudulence, spiritualism left a powerful legacy, influencing Duke University's 1920s studies of ESP, Elisabeth K³bler-Ross's work on death and dying and today's interest in all things New Age. Though highly readable and entertaining, this biography leaves several large questions unanswered. Primary sources recording Maggie's own voice are few; readers may wish for more intimacy and a clearer sense of how Fox felt about the remarkable wool she was pulling over America's eyes. Stuart also neglects larger questions of social history: other than a brief excursus on mesmerism, she makes little attempt to explain why spiritualism was so very popular. Because Stuart neither takes us closely into Fox's heart and mind nor paints an especially rich picture of the mid–19th-century American spiritual landscape, this book engages but ultimately fails to satisfy. (Feb.) Copyright ® Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. ... Credited with cofounding the Spiritualist movement in mid-nineteenth-century America, Maggie Fox has remained an enduring mystery. In this painstakingly researched biography, Stuart seeks to retrace the rise and fall of this legendary medium. Did Maggie and her sister, Katy, really possess the ability to conjure up spirits, or was their convincing routine of raps and knocks merely a well-rehearsed and extremely lucrative performance greedy family members exploited? Seeking to get to the heart of this question, the author tracks Maggie's evolution from an upstate New York farm girl to an internationally renowned symbol of a quasi-religious movement boasting legions of fervent adherents. Along the way, she fell deeply in love with Arctic explorer Elisha Kent Kane, who, embarrassed by her dubious vocation, urged her to "quit this life of dreary sameness and suspected deceit." When a world-weary Maggie renounced Spiritualism as a fraud in 1888, then recanted her startling declaration one year later, the cause suffered a blow from which it never recovered. This life story opens an illuminating window on an era and a movement. Margaret Flanagan Copyright ® American Library Association. All rights reserved
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