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Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick

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Phantasms of the Living: An Examination and Analysis of Cases of Telepathy between Living Persons Printed in the "Journal" of the Society for Psychical Research since the Publication of the Book "Phantasms of the Living," by Gurney, Myers and Podmore in
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improve the accuracy of experimental measurement of electrical resistance; she subsequently turned her careful experimental mind to the question of testing the veracity of claims for psychical phenomena. She was elected President of the
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Results of a Personal Investigation into the 'Physical Phenomena' of Spiritualism. With Some Critical Remarks on the Evidence for the Genuineness of Such Phenomena
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Eleanor and her husband resided at Newnham until 1900, the year of Henry Sidgwick's death. In 1894 Sidgwick was one of the first three women to serve on a
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and Lady Blanche Harriet. She was born into perhaps the most prominent political clan in 19th-century Britain, the 'Hotel Cecil': her brother
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Fowler, Helen (1996). "Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick 1845–1936". In Shils, Edward; Blacker, Carmen (eds.).
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and other prominent spiritualist members resigned from the Society for Psychical Research.
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Phantasmagoria: Spirit Visions, Metaphors, and Media into the Twenty-first Century
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and Sidgwick in the Journal for the Society for Psychical Research exposed the
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A Contribution to the Study of the Psychology of Mrs. Piper's Trance Phenomena
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Most of her writings related to psychical research, and are contained in the
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The Darkened Room: Women, Power, and Spiritualism in Late Victorian England
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The Other World: Spiritualism and Psychical Research in England, 1850–1914
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would eventually himself become prime minister. Her sister was biologist
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In 1916 Sidgwick left Cambridge to live with one of her brothers near
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Smith, Ann Kennedy (9 May 2018). "The Ladies Dining Society".
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J. N. Howard, "Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick and the Rayleighs,"
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in Cambridge, in 1876 she married (and became converted to
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Review: The Reality of Psychic Phenomena by W. J. Crawford
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She was awarded honorary degrees by the universities of
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Portrait of Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick painted by Sir
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Index

Nora Sidgwick

James Jebusa Shannon
Lord Rayleigh
Newnham College
University of Cambridge
Society for Psychical Research
East Lothian
James Maitland Balfour
Arthur
Alice Blanche Balfour
Frank
Newnham College
feminism
philosopher
Henry Sidgwick
Anne Clough
Ladies Dining Society
Louise Creighton
Kathleen Lyttleton
Mary Paley Marshall
Margaret Verrall
sugffragist
Mary Ward
Ellen Wordsworth Darwin
Ida Darwin
Caroline Jebb
Maud Darwin
royal commission
Rayleigh

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