Guppy, Mary Jane (ca. 1860)

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Guppy, Mary Jane (ca. 1860)

The first wife of Spiritualist Samuel Guppy and a medium for physical phenomena, apports, automatic drawings, and psychic lights. Accounts of her phenomena are given in Mary Jane; or Spiritualism chemically explained, with Spirit Drawings, a book published anonymously in 1863. Samuel Guppy was known to be its author.

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Guppy, Samuel. Mary Jane; or Spiritualism chemically explained, with Spirit Drawings. London, 1863.

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