Margaret Fox
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | Date: 2008
Margaret Fox see Fox sisters .
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Talking to the Dead: Kate and Maggie Fox and the Rise of Spiritualism.(Book Review)
The Journal of Parapsychology; 9/22/2004; Moreman, Christopher M.; 1018 words
; TALKING TO THE DEAD: KATE AND MAGGIE Fox AND THE RISE OF SPIRITUALISM by Barbara Weisberg. Harper San Francisco, 2004. 278 pages. $24.95. Barbara Weisberg follows a long line of writers who have sought to provide the truest account of the famous (perhaps infamous) Fox sisters, and the development
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Blithe Spirits; Reviewed by Lloyd Rose
The Washington Post; 6/27/2004; 780 words
; TALKING TO THE DEAD Kate and Maggie Fox and the Rise of Spiritualism By Barbara Weisberg. HarperSanFrancisco. 324 pp. $24.95 The tables started tapping in Hydesville, N.Y., in 1848. The apparent mediums were Maggie and Kate Fox, 14 and 11 respectively, who in March of that year began to
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A skeleton's tale: the origins of modern spiritualism.(INVESTIGATIVE FILES)(Report)
Skeptical Inquirer; 7/1/2008; Nickell, Joe; 2664 words
; ... Lexington, Ky.: The University Press of Kentucky. Pressing, R.G.N.d. Rappings That Startled the World. Lily Dale, N.Y.: Dale News. Topics of the Times. 1904. New York Times, November 25. Weisberg, Barbara. 2004. Talking to the Dead. New York: Harper San Francisco ...
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See Fox Run.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Library Bookwatch; 12/1/2004; 126 words
; See Fox Run Lorna Schultz Nicholson Echelon Press 712 Briarwood Lane, Hurst, TX 76053 1590803019 $14.99 www.echelonpress.com See Fox Run by Lorna Schultz Nicholson is a grim but deftly written murder mystery. When a prostitute in downtown Vancouver comes to Intuko, an Inuit minister who runs a
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FROM OUR PAGES: APRIL 14, 1905; FROM THE COUNTY QUIRKS OFFICE.(CNY)
The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY); 4/14/2005; 107 words
; Byline: Staff writer Frank Herron New York City's District Attorney William Jerome dazzled the crowd at Thursday's annual dinner of the Chamber of Commerce. Jerome, who's a cousin of Britain's author / politician / grandstander Winston Churchill, has roots in Onondaga County. His dad was born at
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The Reluctant Spiritualist: The Life of Maggie Fox.(Book review)
The Journal of Parapsychology; 9/22/2005; Buescher, John; 1748 words
; THE RELUCTANT SPIRITUALIST: THE LIFE OF MAGGIE Fox by Nancy Rubin Stuart. Orlando, FL: Harcourt, 2005. Pp. xiii + 393. $25.00 (hardback). ISBN 0-15-101013-7. In 1848, in the town of Hydesville, New York, not far from Rochester, the sounds of disembodied rappings were produced in the presence of
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The Growing Medium
The Washington Post; 3/2/2005; Daniel Stashower; 880 words
; THE RELUCTANT SPIRITUALIST The Life of Maggie Fox By Nancy Rubin Stuart Harcourt. 393 pp. $25 "American spiritualism -- a movement that at its peak claimed more than a million followers -- was born out of the basic human longing for contact with a loved one lost to death," writes Nancy Rubin Stuart
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TALKING TO THE DEADBOOKS / Nonfiction
International Herald Tribune; 4/15/2004; Patricia Cohen; 736 words
; Patricia Cohen International Herald Tribune 04-15-2004 TALKING TO THE DEAD Kate and Maggie Fox andthe Rise of SpiritualismBy Barbara Weisberg $24.95. 324 pages. HarperSanFrancisco. Reviewed by Patricia Cohen*Throughout this book about the celebrated 19th-century psychics Kate and Maggie Fox,
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The innocent and not so innocent alike
Human Rights; 4/1/2002; Smith, Abbe; Kennedy, Joseph; 3621 words
; Untold Casualties in the War on Crime We like war talk in this country. No matter how complex or intractable the problem, the answer is to wage war. Before the current War on Terrorism, there was the War on Drugs, the War on Hunger, and the War on Poverty. And for the past thirty years we have been
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SHE-NANIGANSOh, man: Bradshaw's comment stuns Martz
Chicago Sun-Times; 11/13/2002; Elliott Harris; 163 words
; Forgive Rams coach Mike Martz if he doesn't tune in Sunday to see Fox broadcaster Terry Bradshaw. Unless it's to hear an apology. Because Bradshaw was not granted a one-on-one sitdown with Martz last week, he said on camera, She doesn't want to talk." Which prompted chuckles from his in-studio
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Fox sisters
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... of American spiritualists including Margaret, 1836-93, Leah, 1814-90, and Catherine, 1841-92. In 1848, Margaret and Catherine claimed to hear mysterious ... publically defended their claims. In 1888, Margaret admitted that the effects were fraudulent ...
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Spiritualism
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... 12-year-old Catherine (Katie) and 15-year-old Margaretta (Maggie). One night in March 1848, when John Fox was once again attempting to discover ... ne's history is revealed. Kane was born Margaretta Fox, and it was she and her sister Catherine ... sounds. By March 31, 1848, John and Margaret ...
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Bennett, Joan
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... of the actress Constance Bennett. Education: Attended St. Margaret's, Waterbury, Connecticut; Le Lierre, Paris, finishing school, 1925. Family: Married 1) John Marion Fox, 1926 (divorced 1928), daughter: Adrienne; 2) the screenwriter ... as Kitty March) 1947 The Macomber Affair (Z. Korda) (as Margaret ...
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