01189nam a22001937a 450000500170000000800410001702801520005808200140021010000190022424501130024326000360035630000220039236500100041452004950042465000130091965000200093265000250095270000180097720260124142021.0260124b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a: International Book Distributorsb: Flat No. 17, Prakash Apartment, Building No.-4405/2, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhic: 122384d: 10/01/2026  a305.5 BAS  aBasham, Diana.  aThe Trial of Womanb: Feminism and the Occult Sciences in Victorian Literature and Society.c/ Diana Basham.  a, Londonb: Macmillan c, 1992.  ax, 253p.c: 24cm.  b10996  aThe Trial of Woman examines the impact of the nineteenth-century 'Occult Revival' on the Victorian Women's Movement, both in the lives of individual women and in the literature surrounding 'the Woman Question'. The book explores the Victorian Myth of Occult Womanhood and argues that the notion of female occult power was deeply influenced by the advent of Mesmerism, Spiritualism and Theosophy. This myth was itself a determining factor in women's struggle for legal and political rights..  aFeminism  aOccult Sciences  aVictorian Literature  aDiana Basham.