Nineteenth-Century Miracles

Record summary

Emma Hardinge Britten’s Nineteenth-Century Miracles, published in 1884, presented a broad history of Spiritualism, including mediums, séances, manifestations, and movement milestones. It is useful as a map of how Spiritualists constructed a historical genealogy for their practices and interpreted earlier reports as precursors to modern revelation. The book is a partisan secondary source rather than a neutral catalogue, and some stories are transmitted through movement literature. Verification should trace its named cases back to newspapers, diaries, séance records, or independent investigations wherever possible.