1. Introduction: Women and the Victorian Occult - Tatiana Kontou
2. Life after Death: Apoplexy, Medical Ethics and the Female Undead - Andrew Mangham
3. ‘‘‘I thought you was an evil spirit’’’: The Hidden Villain of Lady Audley’s Secret - Elizabeth Lee Steere
4. Beyond These Voices: M. E. Braddon and the Ghost of Sensationalism - Kate Mattacks
5. ‘‘Above the breath of suspicion’’: Florence Marryat and the Shadow of the Fraudulent Trance Medium - Georgina O’Brien Hill
6. ‘‘God, or something like that’’: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’s Christian Spiritualism - Roxanne Harde
7. Co-operation and Co-authorship: Automatic Writing, Socialism and Gender in Late Victorian and Edwardian Birmingham - Sarah Edwards
8. ‘‘A mere instrument’’ or ‘‘proud as Lucifer’’? Self-Presentations in theOccult Autobiographies by Emma Hardinge Britten (1900) and Annie Besant (1893) - Miriam Wallraven
9. Whose Body? The ‘‘Willing’’ or ‘‘Unwilling’’ Mesmerized Woman in Late Victorian Fiction - Susan Poznar
10. The Savage Magnet: Racialization of the Occult Body in Late Victorian Fiction - Sarah Willburn
11. E. Nesbit’s New Woman Gothic - Nick Freeman
Biography
Tatiana Kontou is the author of Spiritualism and Women’s Writing: from the fin de siècle to the neo-Victorian and co-editor with Sarah Willburn of The Ashgate Research Companion to Nineteenth-Century Spiritualism and the Occult. She is currently writing a monograph on Florence Marryat for Edinburgh University Press.
