British Artist and Spiritualist Medium. She is remembered for her "spirit" watercolor drawings that she often provided to clients at private séances. She became associated with the fraudulent spirit photographer Frederick Hudson to sell reproductions of his photographs. In 1882 she published "Chronicles of the Photographs of Spiritual Beings and Phenomena Invisible to the Material Eye", that included alleged spirit photographs from Hudson and other photographers featuring mediums such as Agnes Guppy-Volckman, Stainton Moses and spiritualists Alfred Russel Wallace and William Howitt. The photographs in the book were criticized by magic historian Albert A. Hopkins who noted they appeared dubious and could easily be produced by fraudulent methods. During her life, she made 155 "spirit" drawings, many of which have been lost.
British Artist and Spiritualist Medium. She is remembered for her "spirit" watercolor drawings that she often provided to clients at private séances. She became associated with the fraudulent spirit photographer Frederick Hudson to sell reproductions of his photographs. In 1882 she published "Chronicles of the Photographs of Spiritual Beings and Phenomena Invisible to the Material Eye", that included alleged spirit photographs from Hudson and other photographers featuring mediums such as Agnes Guppy-Volckman, Stainton Moses and spiritualists Alfred Russel Wallace and William Howitt. The photographs in the book were criticized by magic historian Albert A. Hopkins who noted they appeared dubious and could easily be produced by fraudulent methods. During her life, she made 155 "spirit" drawings, many of which have been lost.
Bio by: William Bjornstad
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