There Is No Death On Crossing Over
In 1874, Florence interviewed for a London newspaper a prominent clairvoyant. This marked the beginning of her belief in spiritualism. She participated in countless seances and claimed having communicated with her two dead daughters and her brother who died in a shipwreck. She wrote down her experiences in a highly successful non-fiction book, There Is No Death, and the sequel The Spirit World. Spiritualism also influenced her works of fiction in such novels as The Clairvoyance of Bessie Williams or The Strange Transfiguration of Hannah Stubbs. "Many people have pronounced it to be, not only the most remarkable book that she has ever written, but the most remarkable publication of the time. To the public it is so full of marvels as to appear almost incredible, but to her friends, who know that everything related there happened, under the author's eyes, it is more wonderful still. The amount of correspondence that she has received on the subject ever since the book appeared in June, 1891, is incalculable. This book has done more to convince many people of the truth of Spiritualism than any yet written. Florence Marryat numbers her converts by the hundred and they are all gathered from educated people, men of letters and of science have written to her from every part of the world, and many clergymen have succumbed to her courageous assertions. It is curious and interesting to know that Miss Marryat's experiences are not only those of the past, but that she passes through just as wonderful things every day of her life, and the spirit world is quite as familiar to her as the natural one, and far more interesting. Whether her readers sympathize with her or not, or whether they believe that she really saw and heard all the marvels related in "There Is No Death," the book must remain as a remarkable record of the experiences of a woman whose friends know her to be incapable of telling a lie and especially on a subject which she holds to be sacred. 'I really do not care much,' says Miss Marryat with a smile, 'if my readers believe me or not. If they do not it is their loss, not mine. I have done what I considered to be my duty in trying to convince the world of what I know to be true, and to which I shall continue to testify as long as I have breath.'" -Helen C. Black "Notable Women Authors of the Day Table of Contents CHAPTER I. FAMILY GHOSTS CHAPTER II. MY FIRST SÉANCE CHAPTER III. CURIOUS COINCIDENCES CHAPTER IV. EMBODIED SPIRITS CHAPTER V. OPTICAL ILLUSIONS CHAPTER VI. ON SCEPTICISM CHAPTER VII. THE STORY OF JOHN POWLES CHAPTER VIII. MY SPIRIT CHILD CHAPTER IX. THE STORY OF EMILY CHAPTER X. THE STORY OF THE GREEN LADY CHAPTER XI. THE STORY OF THE MONK CHAPTER XII. THE MEDIUMSHIP OF MISS SHOWERS CHAPTER XIII. THE MEDIUMSHIP OF WILLIAM EGLINTON CHAPTER XIV. THE MEDIUMSHIP OF ARTHUR COLMAN CHAPTER XV. THE MEDIUMSHIP OF MRS. GUPPY VOLCKMAN CHAPTER XVI. THE MEDIUMSHIP OF FLORENCE COOK CHAPTER XVII. THE MEDIUMSHIP OF KATIE COOK CHAPTER XVIII. THE MEDIUMSHIP OF BESSIE FITZGERALD CHAPTER XIX. THE MEDIUMSHIP OF LOTTIE FOWLER CHAPTER XX. THE MEDIUMSHIP OF WILLIAM FLETCHER CHAPTER XXI. PRIVATE MEDIA CHAPTER XXII. VARIOUS MEDIA CHAPTER XXIII. ON LAYING THE CARDS CHAPTER XXIV. SPIRITUALISM IN AMERICA -A. Mrs. M. A. Williams. CHAPTER XXV SPIRITUALISM IN AMERICA - B. Mrs. Eva Hatch. CHAPTER XXVI SPIRITUALISM IN AMERICA - The Misses Berry. CHAPTER XXVII SPIRITUALISM IN AMERICA - The Doctor. CHAPTER XXVIII SPIRITUALISM IN AMERICA - E. Mrs. Fay. CHAPTER XXIX SPIRITUALISM IN AMERICA - F. Virginia Roberts. CHAPTER XXX. "QUI BONO?"