MacDonald, Flora.

Mary Melville: The Psychic. Intro. by Wm. Newton Barnhardt. Foreword by Benjamin F. Austin [the publisher].

Toronto Austin Publishing 1900, First Edition Soft Cover Pp. [viii], 267, pictorial paper wraps. Spine sunned, covers dusty, else very good. Hulse notes this is only book known to be published by Austin. "Flora MacDonald Denison (1867-1921) was an original: suffragist, journalist, radical believer in free love and birth control, and fan of spiritualism and Walt Whitman. ... With an aversion to organized religion, Flora did not attend church. She preferred to explore spiritualism. She was enthralled with psychic phenomena, and wrote a book called Mary Melville: The Psychic, which she said was based on the life of her sister who was gifted with extra sensory perception. Spiritualism was not uncommon in this era. People such as Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Guglielmo Marconi and Alexander Graham Bell all held séances in the hope of making contact with the "other world." Another kind of spiritual movement that Flora supported was inspired by the American poet Walt Whitman. She was a member of the Whitman Club which explored his notions of love, God and nature." - Wendy Elliott, Suite101 dot com.

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