Invisible Hosts: Performing the Nineteenth-Century Spirit Medium's Autobiography
Author
Elizabeth Schleber Lowry
Content
xxviii + 157 pp., bibl., index
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Albany: State University of New York Press
Description
Examines gender stereotypes, concepts of womanhood, virtue, and the role of women in the public sphere in autobiographies by four middle-class white women: Emma Hardinge Britten, Amanda Theodosia Jones, Nettie Colburn Maynard, and Leah Fox Underhill.
Main subject
Literature and Literary Criticism Religion and Spirituality
Lowry, Elizabeth Schleber. Invisible Hosts: Performing the Nineteenth-Century Spirit Medium's Autobiography. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2017. Sylvia. Accessed June 15, 2025. https://sylvia.library.wisc.edu/catalog/SYL1008.
