The Haunted House at Cairo in Florence Marryat’s travel writing

Record summary

Florence Marryat, a prominent Victorian spiritualist writer, published accounts of mediumship and postmortem communication that circulated alongside her travel and Egypt-related interests. Her late-century writings can provide leads on how Cairo, Egyptian antiquities, and séances were connected in British supernatural discourse. The exact passage or episode should be located in the relevant edition rather than inferred from catalogue descriptions, because Marryat’s books vary in content and later summaries often conflate them. This is a reception-history lead concerning spiritualist testimony, not independent confirmation of an apparition.