Spirited Pioneer

The Life of Emma Hardinge Britten

Bibliographic Data

ID5832342
AuthorsLisa A Howe (London Metropolitan University, corresponding author)
Year2015
Publication date2015-11-13
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeTHESIS
PublisherFlorida International University (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.25148/etd.fidc000183
OpenAlexW2238626699
LanguageEN
References cited51

Emma Hardinge Britten's life encompassed and reflected many of the challenges and opportunities afforded to women in the Victorian world. This dissertation explores the multi-layered Victorian landscape through the life of an individual in order not only to tell her individual story, but also to gain a more nuanced understanding of how nineteenth-century norms of gender, class, religion, science and politics combined to create opportunities and obstacles for women in Britten's generation. Britten was an actor, a musician, a writer, a theologian, a political activist, a magazine publisher, a spirit medium, a lecturer, and a Spiritualist missionary. Taking into account her multiple subjectivities, this dissertation relies on historical biography to contextualize Britten's life in a number of areas, including Modern Spiritualism and political and civic engagement in the second half of the nineteenth century in Britain, the U.S., and Australia

Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Biography · Everyday life · Literature · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Spiritualism · Australian History and Society · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History · Law · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices

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