Writers in London in the 1890s

A blog dedicated to the research tangents of one writer, while writing about writers in London in the 1890s. Find fun and curious tidbits about Oscar Wilde, Bram Stoker, and many others!

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Tuesday, November 4, 2014

A Woman Called Horniman

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Annie Horniman William Butler Yeats was in his mid-twenties, living in London, had joined the Isis-Urania Temple of the Hermetic Order o...

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

The Dialogue with Devils of 1890s Writers: Theurgy

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My quest to understand the spiritual nature of writers in London in the 1890s, who participated in the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn...

Sunday, January 26, 2014

The Occult Magic of 1890s Writers: Hermeticism

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Writing about Bram Stoker, W.B. Yeats, Maude Gonne, and Constance Wilde’s involvement in the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn , made it...

Monday, January 20, 2014

The Weird Magic of 1890s Writers: Enochian Magic

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Practitioners of Enochian magic attempt to evoke the will of spirits or angels. As i wrote this post, I couldn't get the Black Crowes...

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Monday, January 21, 2013

Talking to the Dead

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Do you believe in ghosts? Sir Arthur Conan Doyle did! The idea of communicating with the dead fascinated him and leaves me puzzling over how...

Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn

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Interest in alternative spirituality and the occult peaked before the Second World War, but mysticism was already becoming popular in the la...

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