{"product_id":"out-of-the-shadows-six-visionary-victorian-women-in-search-of-a-public-voice-paperback","title":"Out of the Shadows: Six Visionary Victorian Women in Search of a Public Voice - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEmily Midorikawa\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eQueen Victoria's reign was an era of breathtaking social change, but it did little to create a platform for women to express themselves. But not so within the social sphere of the séance--a mysterious, lamp-lit world on both sides of the Atlantic, in which women who craved a public voice could hold their own.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eOut of the Shadows\u003c\/i\u003e tells the stories of the enterprising women whose supposedly clairvoyant gifts granted them fame, fortune, and most important, influence as they crossed rigid boundaries of gender and class as easily as they passed between the realms of the living and the dead. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Fox sisters inspired some of the era's best-known political activists and set off a transatlantic séance craze. While in the throes of a trance, Emma Hardinge Britten delivered powerful speeches to crowds of thousands. Victoria Woodhull claimed guidance from the spirit world as she took on the millionaires of Wall Street before becoming America's first female presidential candidate. And Georgina Weldon narrowly escaped the asylum before becoming a celebrity campaigner against archaic lunacy laws. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on diaries, letters, and rarely seen memoirs and texts, Emily Midorikawa illuminates a radical history of female influence that has been confined to the dark until now.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEmily Midorikawa\u003c\/b\u003e is the coauthor of \u003ci\u003eA Secret Sisterhood: The Literary Friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Virginia Woolf\u003c\/i\u003e. Her work has been published in \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLapham's Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. She is a winner of the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize and was a runner-up for the SI Leeds Literary Prize and the Yeovil Literary Prize. She teaches at New York University London.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.2 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 20, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51765877408032,"sku":"9781640095298","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/abf0e1b4f241ade3af879f9b7368bb30.webp?v=1780282171","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/out-of-the-shadows-six-visionary-victorian-women-in-search-of-a-public-voice-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}