[SPIRITUALISM]

[SPIRITUALISM]BRITTEN, EMMA HARDINGENINETEENTH CENTURY MIRACLES; OR, SPIRITS AND THEIR WORK IN EVERY COUNTRY OF THE EARTHNew York, Lovell & Co, 1884. First American Edition, large 8vo, portraits and other illustrations, bound in the publisher's original red cloth, upper board faded, wear to base of darkened spine, gilding dulled. As a child, Emma Britten (1823-99) predicted the futures of people she encountered, relating to them what she had seen in visions, along with information about their deceased relatives of whom she had no prior knowledge. She later became part of a secret London occult society prior to establishing herself in America as one of the most famous 19th-century advocates of Spiritualism