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100	1		_aStuart, Nancy Rubin, _d1944- _eauthor _96304
245	1	4	_aThe reluctant spiritualist : _bthe life of Maggie Fox / _cNancy Rubin Stuart
250			_a1st edition
260			_aOrlando, Fla. : _bHarcourt, _cc2005
300			_axiii, 393 pages : _billustrations ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 363-376) and index
520			_aNominated for a New York Historical Society Book Prize in American History * Honorable Mention in General Nonfiction from the American Society of Journalists and Authors Here is the first authoritative biography of Margaret Fox, the world-famous medium and cofounder of the Spiritualism movement that swept America in the mid-1800s. In 1848, fifteen-year-old Maggie and her sister Katy created rapping sounds by manipulating their toe joints, practicing until they convinced their parents that their farmhouse was haunted. What started as a prank soon transformed into a movement: By 1853 more than thirty thousand mediums were at work, with Maggie among the most famous. But when she denounced the faith in 1888-appearing before a packed auditorium in her stocking feet to demonstrate-Spiritualism withered almost as quickly as it had bloomed. Through the memoirs of the Fox sisters, the letters of Maggie's Arctic explorer husband, contemporary newspaper accounts, and other primary sources, Nancy Rubin Stuart creates a vibrant portrait of a Victorian-era woman at the heart of the tumults of her time.
600	1	0	_aFox, Margaret, _d1833-1893 _96305
650		0	_aSpiritualists _zUnited States _vBiography _96306
650		0	_aSpiritualism _zUnited States _xHistory _y19th century _96307
655		7	_aBiographies. _2lcgft _95221
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