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Victorian Women and the Theatre of Trance Mediums, Spiritualists and Mesmerists in Performance

Spiritualists in the nineteenth century spoke of the ""Borderland, "" a shadowy threshold where the living communed with the dead, and where those in the material realm could receive comfort or advice from another world. The skilled performances of mostly female actors and performers made the ""Borderland"" a theatre, of sorts, in which dramas of revelation and recognition were produced in the forms of seances, trances, and spiritualist lectures. This book examines some of the most fascinating American and British actresses of the Victorian era, whose performances fairly mesmerized their audien.

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