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Spiritualism. She also wrote poetry as a child. In the lengthy introduction to her first book of poetry, Poems of the Inner Life, she described the mystical experiences in her childhood that shaped her life, and later her “passive surrender to the inspirations that moved upon me – I have held conscious communion with disembodied spirits.” She went on to describe the nature of the mental and physical effects of this communion. She reported that some of the poems in her book were dictated by
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Lizzie Doten (she exclusively used the name Lizzie Doten, never
Elizabeth, in her professional life) was educated in Plymouth public schools before spending a year in a private school in Plymouth at the age of 17. She reported to have had psychic experiences as a child, leading to a lifelong interest
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Christianity and organized religion in the defense of Spiritualism. She did not conduct private sessions as a medium, but she advocated for the rights of mediums. At the same time she protested against their organization, the American
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in Boston, entering into extemporaneous trance speaking. Her entry in the
Encyclopaedia of Psychic Science describes her as “greatest and best improvisatrice of the XIX Century.” She would generally end her lectures by reciting a poem, seemingly dictated from beyond the grave.
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During her lectures, Doten would speak about her religious philosophy and about women’s rights and other social reforms. She championed the cause of equal pay for women and often spoke out against marriage as a means of survival. She frequently spoke at the
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Willards in Calaveras County, California, where he owned the Oro y Plata quartz, silver and gold mine, and invented mining processes and equipment. Until 1870, Willard had worked in his family firm in Boston,
68:(1829–1903) left for the California gold fields on a sailing ship in 1849 and later became a journalist in Nevada. He is best known for his intimate daily journals chronicling Western American life in the last half of the 19th century.
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Association of
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Willards lived in Brookline, Massachusetts. Lizzie Doten Willard died on January 15, 1913, at the age of 85. She lies buried in the Willard family plot at
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lecturer and trance speaker and writer who received special attention for her supposed ability to channel poetry from
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The Doty-Doten Family in America: Descendants of Edward Doty, An Emigrant by the Mayflower, 1620.
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Review of a Lecture by Jas. Freeman Clarke on the Religions Philosophy of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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Berner, Noah. “Local historian, archaeologists search for early Calaveras County rancher.”
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personality ceased to act and the agency of spirit influence began.”
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