Emily Midorikawa is coauthor of A Secret Sisterhood: The Literary Friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Virginia Woolf. Her work has been published in the Washington Post, the Paris Review, Lapham's Quarterly, Time.com, and elsewhere. She teaches at New York University-London.
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Queen 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, i... SEE MORE