cover image Radical Spirits Pa Txt

Radical Spirits Pa Txt

Ann Braude. Beacon Press (MA), $18.5 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-8070-7501-2

According to Braude, many 19th-century women allayed fears of death through spiritualist beliefs; the comfort that spiritualism brought increased their confidence, allowing them to support women's rights and advance an array of causes from the abolition of slavery to women's suffrage and marriage reform. no pw review (May)