Syllabus for
University
Course 83
Women, Magic
and Power
1800-1960
Prof. Robert Mathiesen Spring,
2004/5
University Course 83 Robert Mathiesen
MWF, 12:00-12:50 am Salomon Center, room 203
Women, Magic and Power,
1800-1960
Fall, 2004/5
Description
of the Course
This course examines the lives of about two dozen prominent women in the U.S. and the U.K., all of whom were linked in a network of personal acquaintance, who sought to gain power and to bring about political and social reforms through magic or radically unconventional religion. Among them were mesmerists, spiritualists, religious teachers, physicians, sex reformers, politicians, occultists, actors, and poets. Particular emphasis will be placed on the connections between their occult and spiritual practices and their political and social activism in the context of the women's rights movement and shifts in ideas about femininity in the U.S. and the U.K.
Disclaimer
Some of the women and men studied in this course wrote about human sexual activity, and at times even examined specific techniques of sexual intercourse with very close attention to the anatomical, physiological and psychological details. Also, some kinds of sexual activity which some of them discussed or recommended (or even practiced) may currently be regarded as immoral, perverted, exploitative or abusive, or may be illegal. Likewise, some of the political positions that they took may currently be regarded as reprehensible, subversive, or may even be illegal to advocate. Moreover, a few of their writings have been condemned by one or another court of law under statutes pertaining to obcenity, blasphemy or anarchy, and their authors have been imprisoned (or, in one case, judicially murdered) for publishing them. Even today some of their views and writings have not lost their power to shock or offend many people.
Nevertheless, any course on these women must examine some of this problematic material. Please understand that I do not wish to shock or offend you, but that I am unable to avoid the risk of shock or offense if I am to give these women and men the academic consideration that they deserve.
Before you decide to enroll in this course, therefore, I request that you consider whether you may be offended, intimidated, embarrassed or otherwise adversely or unacceptably affected by such texts and ideas, and also by dispassionate, non-judgemental academic discussion of them in the mixed company of the classroom. I also ask you to let me know immediately whenever you find that any particular text, idea or discussion has affected you in any such way, so that I can attempt to reduce the possibility for offense in the future. I also am glad to excuse any of you from any particular class or seminar whenever you feel that the assigned text or topic may affect you too strongly in any such way.
Your decision to remain enrolled in this course signifies that you know that some of the texts and topics of this course will be problematic in the ways specified, and that you promise to accept any risk which this fact may entail to you.
Calendar
for the Course
M W
F M
W F
Week 1 =
26 28* Jan. 9 = 21 23 25§
2
= 31 2 4 Feb.
[Spring Recess]
3
= 7 9 11§ 10 = 4
6 8§ Apr.
4
= 14* 16 18§ 11 = 11 13 15§
5 = -- 23 25§ 12 = 18
20 22§
6
= 28 2 4§ Mar. 13
= 25* 27 29§
7
= 7 9 11 14
= 2 4* 6§ May
8
= 14* 16 18§ 15 = 9*
-- -
*
A written assignment is due by 5:00 pm on this day.
A reading assignment is due before class on this day.
§ This
Fridays class is a Seminar.
This
course will meet during Reading Period.
Office hours will be held on Fridays, 2:00-4:00 pm, or by individual appointment at other times, in room 022 in the basement of Marston Hall (863-3597).
Reading
Assignments
You will have two kinds of reading assignments in this course.
1. Required Books. These books are to be read by the first class in the specified week. There are the seven required books available for purchase in the bookstore, and an eighth which will be made available as an author's reprint in class. (For their dates and publishers see the bibliography at the end of this syllabus.)
Week 2 (by 1/31): Ann Braudes Radical Spirits.
Week 3 (by 2/7): Robert Mathiesens The Unseen Worlds of Emma Harding Britten.
Week 5 (by 2/23): Joscelyn
Godwins The Theosophical Enlightenment.
Week 7 (by 3/7): Mary K. Greers Women of the Golden Dawn.
Week 9 (by 3/21): Gillian Gills Mary Baker Eddy..
Week 10 (by 4/4): Beryl Satters Each Mind a Kingdom.
Week 12 (by 4/18): Barbara Goldsmiths Other Powers.
Week 14 (by 5/2): Ronald Huttons The Triumph of the Moon.
2. Readings in the Primary Sources. These texts are to be read in advance of each Friday Seminar (see immediately below). They are the most important of all your assigned readings, as they will be examined in the Friday Seminars, which together with class participation count for half of your grade in this course.
Friday
Seminars
Most
Friday classes will be devoted to student-led discussions of particular texts
by one or another of the women studied in the course. These primary sources will be distributed in
xerocopy to the class at least a week in advance. (None of them is under copyright.) Each Friday seminar will have a student
leader, who is responsible for conducting the discussion, and two or three
other students who will serve as primary discussants, and who will be
particularly responsible for the intellectual quality of the seminar. All other students are secondary discussants,
who are expected to contribute to the discussion, though not necessarily as
much as the primary discussants. All
students are expected to have read the assigned texts for each Friday seminar,
but the seminar leader and the primary discussants are expected to have read
them with particular care.
Written
Assignments
Each
assignment is due by 5:00 pm on the specified day. You must hand in two copies of each
assignment.
F 1/28 #1. First
Personal Essay. Write a brief
personal essay telling what personal and/or academic interests have led you to
take this course, what you hope to get out of it, and what previous exposure
(if any) you may have had to magic or magical religion. Please include anything which will shed light
on your choice of this course. This essay will not be graded, and will
remain confidential. Keep this essay on your computer, as you will
need to refer to it at the end of the course (see #6 below).
M 2/14 #2. Power Paper. The most obvious ways to acquire personal power rely on straight-forward material advantages, such as physical strength, wealth, number of children and other relatives, or a central geographic or social position. Yet there have been many cases where one individual has acquired significant personal power over others while lacking all such material advantages. Such cases are most striking whenever there is an interpersonal relationship based on extreme and stable differences in the material advantages, for example, in the relationship between a wealthy person and an impoverished one, an adult and a minor, a guardian and a ward, a guard and a convict, a master and a slave, a bully and a victim, a marginal person and one in the mainstream of his or her society, or in very many societies a man and a woman. Write a brief essay on the various ways in which the seemingly weaker, marginal or subordinate person in such a relationship may manage to acquire considerable personal power over the seemingly stronger, central or dominant person. Note: This is not a research paper that requires a bibliography and footnotes, but a general essay requiring wisdom, independent thought and insight into life. Keep this essay on your computer, as you will be asked to re-write it at the end of the course (see #5 below).
M 3/14 #3. Prospectus for Research Paper or Creative Project. First, choose the subject of your major research paper or creative project. Your subject may be (a) any one of the women listed at the end of the syllabus, or (b) any one of the major spiritual (religious, magical or occult) movements treated in the course, or (c) any of the major techniques or practices treated in the course, or (d) any other major theme of the course. You must have checked with me in advance for approval of your chosen subject. Second, write a page or two explaining the reasons for your choice and what you will attempt to show or discover during the course of your research. Third, prepare a tentative bibliography of the primary and secondary literature for your subject. All this is due at the same time.
M 4/25 #4. Research Paper or Creative Project. Your research paper is due. It should be as polished as you can make it on your own.
W 5/4 #5. Revision of Power Paper. Critically re-read your general essay on power (see #2 above), and revise or rewrite it in light of what you have learned in this course so far.
M 5/9 #6. Final Personal Essay. Critically re-read your initial personal essay (see #1 above), and write a second brief essay explaining what you have learned since you wrote that first essay. This essay, too, will not be graded, and will remain confidential.
Grading
Your grade for this course will be based half on your written assignments (#2-#5 only) and half on your participation in class, especially during the Friday Seminars. As a general rule, late papers (even if their lateness is due to a computer crash!) will not be either accepted or graded.
Syllabus of Lectures and Discussions
Asterisks
and daggers mark days when written assignments or reading assignments are due,
as in the Calendar above.
Week 1: Introductory
W Introduction to the course
F* Survey of the movements and the women to be studied
Week 2: Historical Background; Mesmerism and Magic
M Historical background
W Mesmerism, 1780+
F The Orphic Circle," 1830s+
Week 3: Spiritualism, I
M Spiritualism, 1848+
W Emma Floyd Hardinge Britten, 1823-1899
F Seminar: Emma Hardinge Brittens Autobiography [extracts]
Week 4: Spiritualism, II
M* Spiritualism and womens rights, 1848+
W Cora L. V. Scott Hatch Daniels Tappan Richmond, 1840-1923
F Seminar: Early trance-lectures by Emma Hardinge & Cora Hatch [examples]
Week 5: Occultism, I
M [no class]
W Paschal Beverly Randolph, 1825-1875
F Seminar: Paschal Beverly Randolphs writings [extracts]
Week
6: Occultism, II
M H. P. Blavatsky [Elena Petrovna Blavatskaja], 1831-1891
W The Theosophical Society and its offshoots, 1875+
F Seminar: Early articles by H. P. Blavatsky
Week
7: Occultism, III
M Annie Wood Besant, 1847-1933
W Anna Bonus Kingsford, 1846-1888, and The Hermetic Society, 1884+
F The Golden Dawn and its offshoots,
1888+
Week 8: Occultism, IV
M* Moina [Mina] Bergson Mathers, 1865-1928 and Florence Farr Emery, 1860-1917
W Dion Fortune [Violet Firth], 1890-1946
F Seminar: Dion Fortunes novels [extracts]
Week
9: The Metaphysical Movement, I
M The American Metaphysical Religions, 1875+
W Mary Baker Glover Patterson Eddy, 1821-1910
F Seminar: Autobiographical writings by Mary Baker Eddy
Week
10: The Metaphysical Movement, II
M Malinda Eliot Cramer, 1844-1906
W Emma Curtis Hopkins, 1853-1925
F Seminar: Autobiographical writings by Malinda Cramer
Week 11: Sex, Social Reform, Spirituality and Magic, I
M The Free Love Movement
W Lois Waisbrooker [Adeline Eliza Nichols], 1826-1909
F Seminar: Lois Waisbrooker's The Occult Forces of Sex [extracts].
Week
12: Sex, Social Reform, Spirituality and
Magic, II
M Victoria Claflin Woodhull Martin, 1838-1927
W Chandos Leigh Hunt Wallace, ca. 1854-19??
F Seminar: Chandos Leigh Hunt Wallaces Private Instructions [extracts]
Week 13: Sex, Social Reform, Spirituality and Magic,
III
M* Alice Bunker Stockham, 1833-1912
W Ida C. Craddock, 1857-1902
F Seminar: Alice Bunker Stockhams Karezza.
Week 14: Paganism and Witchcraft
M Nature Religion, Pantheism and Paganism
W* Witchcraft and Wicca
F Seminar: The Book of Shadows [extracts]
Week
15: Retrospect and Prospects
M* Retrospect & prospects
W [no class]
General
Bibliography
Unless otherwise indicated, books in this
bibliography are in the open stacks of the Rockefeller Library.
Studies
Catherine
L. Albanese. Nature
Religion in America from the Algonkian Indians to the New Age. Chicago New York: The University of Chicago Press, ©1990.
BL435 .A43 1990
Diana
Basham. The
Trial of Woman: Feminism and the Occult Sciences in Victorian Literature and
Society. New York: New York
University Press, ©1992. PR468 .F46 B37 1992
Mary Farrell Bednarowski. New Religions and the Theological Imagination in America. Bloomington Indianapolis, IN: Indiana University Press, ©1989. BL2525 .B44 1989
Charles S. Braden. Spirits in Rebellion: the Rise and Development of New Thought. Dallas, TX: Southern Methodist University Press, ©1963. BF639 .B576 1963
Ann Braude.
Radical Spirits: Spiritualism and
Women's Rights in Nineteenth-Century America. Boston: Beacon Press, ©1989. Second edition: Bloomington, IN: Indiana
University Press, ©2001 BF1275 .W65 B73 1989
John L. Brooke. The Refiner's Fire: The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644-1844. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, ©1994. BX8643 .C68 B76 1994
Jon Butler. Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People. Cambridge, MA London, UK: Harvard University Press, ©1990. BL2525 .B87 1990
Mark C. Carnes. Secret Ritual and Manhood in Victorian America. New Haven: Yale University Press, ©1989. HS204 .C37 1989
Walter H. Conser, Jr. and Sumner B. Twiss, eds. Religious Diversity and American Religious History: Studies in Traditions and Cultures. Athens, GA London: The University of Georgia Press, ©1997. BL2525 .R4694 1997
Note
especially:
Stephen J. Stein. "History, Historians, and the Historiography of Indigenous Sectarian
Religious Movements in America," pp. 128-156.
Catherine L. Albanese. "Dissident History: American Religious Culture and the Emergence of the Metaphysical Tradition," pp. 157-188.
Adam Crabtree. Animal Magnetism, Early Hypnotism, and Psychical Research, 1766-1925: An Annotated Bibliography. White Plains, NY: Kraus International Publications, ©1988. [SCI REF] Z6878 .A54 C73 1988
John Patrick Deveney. Paschal Beverly Randolph: A Nineteenth-Century Black American Spiritualist, Rosicrucian, and Sex Magician. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, ©1997. BF1408.2 .R364 1997
Robert
S. Ellwood, Jr. Alternative Altars:
Unconventional and Eastern Spirituality in America. Chicago London: The University of Chicago Press, ©1979.
BL2530 .U6 E44
Sandra Sizer Frankiel. California's Spiritual Frontiers: Religious Alternatives in Anglo-Protestantism, 1850-1910. Berkeley Los Angeles London: University of California Press, ©1988. BL2527 .C2 F72 1988
Robert C. Fuller. Mesmerism and the American Cure of Souls. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, ©1982. BF1125 .F84 1982
Mary Gabriel. Notorious Victoria: The Life of Victoria Woodhull Uncensored. Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 1998. HQ1413 .W66 G34 1998
Alan Gauld. The Founders of Psychic Research. London: Routledge & K. Paul, ©1968. [SCI] BF1026 .G3
Alan Gauld. A History of Hypnotism. Cambridge New York: Cambridge University Press, ©1992. [SCI] BF1125 .G38 1992
Gillian Gill. Mary Baker Eddy. (Radcliffe Biography Series.) Reading, MA: Perseus Books, 1998. BX6995 .G55x 1998
Joscelyn Godwin. The Theosophical Enlightenment. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, ©1994. BP545 .G63 1994
Joscelyn Godwin, Christian Chanel & John. P. Deveney. The Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor: Initiatic and Practical Documents of an order of Practical Occultism. York Beach, ME: Weiser, ©1995. BF1429 .H47 1995
Barbara Goldsmith. Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism,and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. HQ1413 .W66 G65 1998
Linda Gordon. Womans Body, Womans Right: Birth Control in America. Revised ed. New York: Penguin, ©1990 . HQ766.5 .U5 G67 1990
Stephen Gottschalk. The Emergence of Christian Science in American Religious Life. Berkeley Los Angeles: University of California Press, ©1973. BX6943 .G66
Mary K. Greer. Women of the Golden Dawn: Rebels and Priestesses. Rochester, VT: Park Street Press, ©1995. BF1408 .G74 1995
Philip Heselton. Wiccan Roots: Gerald Gardner and the Modern Witchcraft Revival. Freshfields, Chieveley, Berks.: Capall Bann, © 2000. BF1571 .H47x 2000
Robert
V. Hine. California's
Utopian Colonies. San Marino,
CA: The Huntington Library, ©1953.
HX653 .H5
Ronald Hutton. The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft. OxfordNew York: Oxford University Press, © 1999. BF1581 .H88 1999
J. Stillson Judah. The History and Philosophy of the Metaphysical Movements in America. Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, ©1967. BR516.5 .J82
Howard Kerr. Mediums, and Spirit-Rappers, and Roaring Radicals: Spiritualism in American Literature, 1850-1900. Urbana Chicago London: University of Illinois Press, ©1972. PS169 .S65 K4
Howard Kerr and Charles L. Crow, eds. The Occult in America: New Historical Perspectives. Urbana Chicago: The University of Illinois Press, ©1983. BF1434 .U6 O33 1983
Note
especially:
Robert Galbreath. "Explaining Modern Occultism," pp. 11-37.
Jon Butler. "The Dark Ages of American Occultism, 1760-1848," pp. 58-78.
Ernest Isaacs. "The Fox Sisters and American Spiritualism," pp. 79-110.
Robert S. Ellwood, Jr. "The American Theosophical Synthesis," pp. 111-134.
R. Laurence Moore. "The Occult Connection? Mormonism, Christian Science, and
Spiritualism," pp. 135-161.
Mary Farrell Bednarowski. "Women in Occult America," pp. 177-195.
James R. Lewis and J. Gordon Melton, eds. Perspectives on the New Age. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, ©1992. BP605 .N48 P46 1992
Note
especially:
J. Gordon Melton. "New Thought and the New Age," pp. 15-29.
Kay Alexander. "Roots of the New Age," pp. 30-47.
Robert Ellwood. "How New is the New Age?" pp. 59-67.
Catherine L. Albanese. "The Magical Staff: Quantum Healing in the New Age," pp. 68-84.
Colleen McDannell. The Christian Home in Victorian America, 1840-1900. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, ©1986. BV4526.2 .M37 1986
R. Laurence Moore. In Search of White Crows: Spiritualism, Parapsychology, and American Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, ©1977. BF1242 .U6 M66
Janet Oppenheim. The Other World: Spiritualism and Psychical Research in England, 1850-1914. Cambridge, UK London New York New Rochelle, NY Sydney Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, ©1985. BF1242 .G7 O66 1985
Alex
Owen. The
Darkened Room: Women, Power, and
Spiritualism in Late Victorian England.
Philadelphia: University of
Pennsylvania Press, ©1990. BF1275 .W65 O94 1990
Gail Thain Parker. Mind Cure in New England. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, ©1973. BF639 .P13
Frank Podmore. Modern Spiritualism: a History and a Criticism. 2 vols. London: Methuen, 1902. BF1261 .P6 1902
Frank Podmore. Mesmerism and Christian Science: A Short History of Mental Healing. London: Methuen, 1909. BF1125 .P6
D. Michael Quinn. Early Mormonism and the Magic World View. Rev ed. Salt Lake City, UT: Signature Books, ©1998. BX8643 .O25 Q55 1998
Beryl Satter. Each Mind a Kingdom: American Women, Sexual Purity, and the New Thought Movement, 1875-1920. Berkeley Los Angeles: University of California Press, ©1999. BF639 .S124 1999
Hal D. Sears. The Sex Radicals: Free Love in Victorian America. Lawrence, KS: The Regents Press of Kansas, ©1977. HQ961 .S4
John
C. Spurlock. Free
Love, Marriage and Middle-Class Radicalism in America, 1825-1860. New York London: New York University
Press, ©1988. HQ967 .U5 S68 1988
Taylor Stoehr. Free Love in America: A Documentary History. New York: AMS Press, Inc., ©1979. HQ961 .F73
Eugene Taylor. Shadow Culture: Psychology and Spirituality in America. Washington, DC: Counterpoint, 1999. [Not at Brown]
Thomas A. Tweed, ed. Retelling U.S. Religious History. Berkeley Los Angeles London: University of California Press, ©1997. BL2525 .R473 1997
Note
especially:
Ann Braude. "Women's History Is American Religious History," pp.87-107.
Catherine L. Albanese. "Exchanging Selves, Exchanging Souls: Contact, Combination, and American Religious History," pp. 200-226.
Lois Beachy Underhill. The Woman Who Ran for President: The Many Lives of Victoria Woodhull. New York London, 1995. HQ1413.W66 U53 1995
Peter Washington. Madame Blavatsky's Baboon. New York: Schocken Books, ©1994. BP530 .W34 1995
Catherine Wessinger, ed. Women's Leadership in Marginal Religions: Explorations Outside the Mainstream. Urbana Chicago: University of Illinois Press, ©1993. BL2525 .W66 1993
Note
especially:
Catherine Wessinger. "Going Beyond and Retaining Charisma: Women's Leadership
in Marginal Religions," pp. 1-22.
Ann Braude. "The Perils of Passivity: Women's Leadership in Spiritualism and Christian Science," pp. 55-67.
Robert Ellwood and Catherine Wessinger. "The Feminism of 'Universal Brotherhood': Women in the Theosophical Movement," pp.68-87.
J. Gordon Melton. "Emma Curtis Hopkins: A Feminist of the 1880s and Mother of New Thought," pp. 88-101.
Cynthia Eller. "Twentieth-Century Women's Religion as Seen in the Feminist Spirituality Movement," pp. 172-195.
Alison Winter. Mesmerized:Powers of Mind in Victorian Britain. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. BF1125 .W56 1998
Biographical
Dictionaries and Other Reference Works
Eleanor Flexner & Ellen Fitzpatrick. Century of Struggle: The Womans Rights Movement in the United States. Enlarged ed. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press (Belknap Press), ©1996. HQ1410 .F6 1996
Annie Laurie Gaylor, ed. Women without Superstition: "No Gods No Masters": The Collected Writings of Women Freethinkers of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Madison, WI: Freedom from Religion Foundation, ©1997. CT3234 .W66x 1997
Edward T. James, Janet Wilson James, & Paul S. Boyer, eds. Notable American Women, 1607-1950: A Biographical Dictionary. 3 vols. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, ©1971. 1-SIZE E176 .N65 [second copy in ROCK REF]
J. Gordon Melton. The Encyclopedia of American Religions. Wilmington, NC: McGrath Publishing Co., ©1978. [ROCK REF] 1-SIZE BL2530 .U6 M443
J. Gordon Melton, ed. Biographical Dictionary of American Cult and Sect Leaders. New York London: Garland Publishing, Inc., ©1986. BL2525 .M448 1986
J. Gordon Melton, ed. Religious Leaders of America: a Biographical Guide to Founders and Leaders of Religious Bodies, Churches, and Spiritual Groups in North America. Detroit: Gale Research, ©1991. [ROCK REF] 1-SIZE BL72 .M44x 1991
Timothy
Miller, ed. America's Alternative Religions.
Albany, NY: State University of
New York Press, ©1995. BL2525 .A55 1995
Joan
Perkin. Victorian
Women. New York: New York University
Press, ©1993 . HQ1599 .E5P47 1995
Jefferson
P. Selth. Alternative
Lifestyles: A Guide to Research
Collections on Intentional Communities, Nudism, and Sexual Freedom. Westport, CT London: Greenwood Press, ©1985. HQ971
.S45 1985
Barbara
Sicherman, Carol Hurd Green, Ilene Kantrov & Harriette Walker,
eds. Notable American Women: The Modern
Period: A Biographical Dictionary. Cambridge,
MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, ©1980.
1-SIZE E176 .N66 [second copy in ROCK
REF]
Madeleine B. Stern. We the Women: Career Firsts of Nineteenth-Century America. New York: Schulte Publishing Co., ©1963. Reprint: New York: Burt Franklin, 1974. CT3260 .S73 1962 [or: 1974]
Frances Elizabeth Willard & Mary A. Livermore, eds. A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred Seventy Biographical Sketches ... of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life. Buffalo, NY: Moulton, ©1893. Reprinted: Detroit, MI: Gale Research Co., 1967. 1-SIZE E176 .W69 1967 [reprint in ROCK REF]
Chronological
Lists of the Women and Some of the Men in the Network
The
Women in the Network:
Leah Fox Fish Underhill, 1814?-1890, and her sisters (Catherine Fox Jenken, 1833-1892,
and Margaret Fox Kane, 1836-1893)
Mary Baker Glover Patterson Eddy, 1821-1910
Emma Floyd Hardinge Britten, 1823-1899
Matilda Joslyn Gage, 1826-1898
Lois Waisbrooker [Adeline Eliza Nichols], 1826-1909
H. P. Blavatsky [Elena Petrovna Blavatskaja], 1831-1891
Alice Bunker Stockham, 1833-1912
Victoria
Claflin Woodhull Martin, 1838-1927
Cora L. V. Scott Hatch Daniels Tappan Richmond, 1840-1923
Malinda Eliot Cramer, 1844-1906
Anna
Bonus Kingsford, 1846-1888
Katherine
Tingley, 1847-1929
Annie Wood Besant, 1847-1933
Harriet Emilie Cady, 1848-1941
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, 1850-1919
Nellie Craib Beighle, 1851-1916
Emma Curtis Hopkins, 1851-1925
Chandos Leigh Hunt Wallace, ca. 1854-19??
Ida C. Craddock, 1857-1902
Florence Farr Emery, 1860-1917
Moina [Mina] Bergson Mathers, 1865-1928
Edith Maude Gonne MacBride, 1866-1953
Mabel Besant Scott, 1870-1952
Dion Fortune [Violet Firth], 1890-1946
Some
of the Men Implicated in the Network:
Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, 1802-1866
Warren Felt Evans, 1817-1889
Paschal Beverly Randolph, 1825-1875
Albert Leighton Rawson, 1828-1907
Henry Steel Olcott, 1832-1907
James Henry Wiggin, 1836-1900
William Wynn Westcott, 1848-1925
William Quan Judge, 1851-1896
Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers, 1854-1918
William Walker Atkinson, 1862-1932
Aleister Crowley, 1875-1947
Gerald Brosseau Gardner, 1884-1964
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