TY - BOOK AU - Oppenheim, Janet. AU - Janet Oppenheim. TI - The Other World: : Spiritualism and Psychical Research in England, 1850-1914 SN - 9780521347679 U1 - 133.9 OPP PY - 1985/// CY - , London PB - : Cambridge University Press KW - Spiritualism KW - Psychical Research KW - Research in England N2 - An examination of the public fascination with spiritualism and psychical research in Britain from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century. The book explores the variety of social background, education, and professional expertise that characterized the men and women who attended seances and investigated psychic phenomena, and places them in the context of their times without ridiculing their beliefs ER -