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The Witch of Lime Street : Seance, Seduction and Haudini in the Spirit World / David Jaher

By: Material type: TextTextDescription: 436 pages ; illustrations : 20 cmISBN:
  • 9780307451064
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 133 .91 092 JAH
Summary: History comes alive in this textured account of the rivalry between Harry Houdini and the so-called Witch of Lime Street, whose iconic lives intersected at a time when science was on the verge of embracing the paranormal. The 1920s are famous as the golden age of jazz and glamour, but it was also an era of fevered yearning for communion with the spirit world, after the loss of tens of millions in the First World War and the Spanish-flu epidemic.
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History comes alive in this textured account of the rivalry between Harry Houdini and the so-called Witch of Lime Street, whose iconic lives intersected at a time when science was on the verge of embracing the paranormal. The 1920s are famous as the golden age of jazz and glamour, but it was also an era of fevered yearning for communion with the spirit world, after the loss of tens of millions in the First World War and the Spanish-flu epidemic.

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