Emma Hardinge Britten
Also: • Britten, E. H. • Hardinge-Britten, Emma • Hardinge, E. •
(2 May 1823 − 2 October 1899)
English-born Spiritualist medium, lecturer, editor and author, active mainly in the United States and later in England. Elected a Councillor of the Theosophical Society at its organizing meeting in New York on 7 September 1875; some of the Society's early meetings were held at her home. She left the Society within a few months and later became openly hostile to H. P. Blavatsky. Author of Modern American Spiritualism (1870), Art Magic (1876) and Nineteenth Century Miracles (1884) — the last being a principal surviving source on the founding of the Theosophical Society. Founder of the Spiritualist journal The Two Worlds (Manchester).
Her Modern American Spiritualism records twenty years of Spiritualist activity; de Zirkoff cites its third edition, New York, 1870. (BCW 3:498).
The appendix directs the reader to a biographical sketch elsewhere in the collected writings. (BCW 4:651).
Some links:
- Quotes: Zirkoff, Boris
- CTD article in Russian: Бриттен, Эмма Хардиндж
- Theosophy Wiki: Emma Hardinge Britten
- Wikipedia: Emma Hardinge Britten
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To show: Emma Hardinge Britten; sortable: Britten, Emma Hardinge
Person's short name: E. H. Britten; sortable: Britten, E. H.; for categories: Britten E.H.
Lifetime: 1823-1899
Shortly: English-American Spiritualist medium and author (Modern American Spiritualism, Art Magic); a Councillor of the Theosophical Society at its founding, later estranged from it.