Yearning for the New Age Laura Holloway-Langford and Late Victorian Spirituality

Name: Yearning for the New Age Laura Holloway-Langford and Late Victorian Spirituality
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ISBN: 9780253001771

ISBN-10: 0253001773

ISBN-13: 9780253001771

Edition: 2012

Authors: Sarah Diane Sasson

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This biography of an unconventional woman in late 19th-century America is a study of a search for individual autonomy and spiritual growth. Laura Holloway-Langford, a "rebel girl" from Tennessee, moved to New York City, where she supported her family as a journalist. She soon became famous as the author of Ladies of the White House, which secured her financial independence. Promoted to associate editor of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, she gave readings and lectures and became involved in progressive women's causes, the temperance movement, and theosophy -- even traveling to Europe to meet Madame Blavatsky, the movement's leader, and writing for the theosophist newspaper The Word. In the early…

Book details

List price: $31.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 5/7/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 368
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English

Diane Sasson teaches in the Divinity School at Vanderbilt University. She is author of The Shaker Spiritual Narrative.



Foreword


Acknowledgments


A Note on Names


Introduction



Sex, Suffrage, and Religious Seekers



"A Clairvoyant of the First Water"



"Better Come"



"The First Bomb-shell from the Dugpa World"



Fantasizing the Occult



"Our Golden Word: Try"



The Lady Mrs. X



Disseminating New Ideas



Music of the Spheres



"Dear Friend and Sister"



Who Tells the Tale?


Epilogue: Seeking Laura


List of Abbreviations


Notes


Bibliography


Index