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Spirits, Séances & the Victorian Imagination (with Steele Alexandra Douris)
We think we know what Victorian mysticism looked like.
A crystal ball glowing in candlelight.
A veiled medium seated at a round table.
Ectoplasm drifting through a darkened parlor.
But what was Victorian Spiritualism really?
In this episode of Big Crystal Energy, I’m joined by historian, author, and cultural scholar Steele Alexandra Douris, who holds a PhD in English from Stanford University. Her research explores 19th-century literature, gender, folklore, and the cultural history of the supernatural.
Drawing from her book Spirits, Seers and Séances, Steele walks us through:
The origins of…
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