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Williams.ĬHAPTER XXV SPIRITUALISM IN AMERICA – B. THE MEDIUMSHIP OF WILLIAM FLETCHERĬHAPTER XXIV. THE MEDIUMSHIP OF LOTTIE FOWLERĬHAPTER XX.

THE MEDIUMSHIP OF BESSIE FITZGERALDĬHAPTER XIX. THE MEDIUMSHIP OF KATIE COOKĬHAPTER XVIII. THE MEDIUMSHIP OF FLORENCE COOKĬHAPTER XVII. THE MEDIUMSHIP OF ARTHUR COLMANĬHAPTER XV. THE MEDIUMSHIP OF WILLIAM EGLINTONĬHAPTER XIV. THE MEDIUMSHIP OF MISS SHOWERSĬHAPTER XIII. Black “Notable Women Authors of the DayĬHAPTER VI. I have done what I considered to be my duty in trying to convince the world of what I know to be true, and to which I shall continue to testify as long as I have breath.’” -Helen C. If they do not it is their loss, not mine.

‘I really do not care much,’ says Miss Marryat with a smile, ‘if my readers believe me or not. Whether her readers sympathize with her or not, or whether they believe that she really saw and heard all the marvels related in “There Is No Death,” the book must remain as a remarkable record of the experiences of a woman whose friends know her to be incapable of telling a lie and especially on a subject which she holds to be sacred. It is curious and interesting to know that Miss Marryat’s experiences are not only those of the past, but that she passes through just as wonderful things every day of her life, and the spirit world is quite as familiar to her as the natural one, and far more interesting. Florence Marryat numbers her converts by the hundred and they are all gathered from educated people, men of letters and of science have written to her from every part of the world, and many clergymen have succumbed to her courageous assertions. This book has done more to convince many people of the truth of Spiritualism than any yet written. The amount of correspondence that she has received on the subject ever since the book appeared in June, 1891, is incalculable. To the public it is so full of marvels as to appear almost incredible, but to her friends, who know that everything related there happened, under the author’s eyes, it is more wonderful still. “Many people have pronounced it to be, not only the most remarkable book that she has ever written, but the most remarkable publication of the time. Spiritualism also influenced her works of fiction in such novels as The Clairvoyance of Bessie Williams or The Strange Transfiguration of Hannah Stubbs. She wrote down her experiences in a highly successful non-fiction book, There Is No Death, and the sequel The Spirit World. She participated in countless seances and claimed having communicated with her two dead daughters and her brother who died in a shipwreck. This marked the beginning of her belief in spiritualism.

In 1874, Florence interviewed for a London newspaper a prominent clairvoyant.