The Reluctant Spiritualist by Nancy Rubin Stuart

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“The Fox Sisters and the Rap on Spiritualism,” Smithsonian, October 30, 2012.Īventi, Anthony. Go here to read the full story.Ībbott, Karen. Meanwhile, below is a Fox Sisters bibliography I put together. There’s going to be a Fox Sisters movie based on a 1936 New Yorker story. While researching, I spent some time in Rochester, where I visited the old foundation of the family’s home, now a holy site for Spiritualists, and met super-helpful historian Chris Davis of the Newark-Arcadia Historical Society. Narratively published this story I wrote about the Fox Sisters, who invented American Spiritualism in 1848.

The Reluctant Spiritualist by Nancy Rubin Stuart