Anna Kingsford 2 Volume Set
Anna Kingsford 2 Volume Set
$113.00
USDFirst published in 1896, this two-volume biography details the life of physician and spiritualist Anna Kingsford (1846–1888). Kingsford, one of the first women to obtain a degree in medicine, began her literary career at the age of thirteen and in her lifetime was known for campaigning against vivisection, involvement in the suffragette movement, and promotion of vegetarianism, as well as her spiritualist exploits. This biography was written by her friend and colleague, the spiritualist Edward Maitland (1824–1897), who served as Kingsford's protector while she studied in Paris. At the time of its publication, the work was not well received, the main criticism being that it focused on Maitland's psychic experiences rather than on Kingsford herself. Volume 1 includes her early life and meeting with Maitland. Volume 2 covers their shared spiritualist experiences and involvement with the Theosophical and Hermetic Societies.
Product details
May 2011Multiple copy pack
9781108072755
928 pages
325 × 250 × 70 mm
1.51kg
Available
Table of Contents
- Volume 1: Preface
- 1. Early life
- 2. Our first acquaintance
- 3. Some account of myself
- 4. Mutual recognition
- 5. To end of 1875
- 6. Student life
- 7. Spiritual unfoldments
- 8. The celestial opened
- 9. A cloud of witnesses
- 10. Persecuted of Apollyon
- 11. The baffled sorcerer
- 12. Manifold experiences
- 13. The first and last of the gods
- 14. Warnings and instructions
- 15. Floods of light
- 16. Close of student course
- 17. Among the astrals
- 18. Conversations with the genii
- 19. Continuous illuminations. Volume 2:
- 20. The perfect way
- 21. Numerous experiences
- 22. Varied activities
- 23. A tour abroad
- 24. Winter at Paris
- 25. The Theosophical Society
- 26. A time of controversy
- 27. Meditations on the mysteries
- 28. The Hermetic Society
- 29. Letters and illuminations
- 30. Some former incarnations
- 31. De multis rebus
- 32. A flight for life
- 33. A melancholy tour
- 34. A home to die in
- 35. The withdrawal
- 36. Priest versus prophet
- 37. Post mortem.
