Captivity
by:
Deborah Noyes (author)
The background for this love story is the strange, true tale of the Fox Sisters, the enigmatic family of young women who, in upstate New York in 1848, by pretending to speak with the dead unwittingly (but artfully) gave birth to a religious movement that touched two continents: The American...
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The background for this love story is the strange, true tale of the Fox Sisters, the enigmatic family of young women who, in upstate New York in 1848, by pretending to speak with the dead unwittingly (but artfully) gave birth to a religious movement that touched two continents: The American Spiritualists.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781609530457 (1609530454)
Publish date: June 8th 2011
Publisher: Unbridled Books
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Paranormal,
Literature,
Historical Fiction,
Adult,
Mystery,
19th Century,
Horror,
Ghost Stories,
Gothic,
Esoterica,
Ghosts,
Spiritualism
review to come...will add star rating later.
“Nothing here is as it seems.”Captivity begins in Rochester New York in 1848 and tells the story of sisters Leah, Maggie and Kate Fox, who helped give rise to the Spiritualist movement. Younger sisters Maggie and Kate seem to have a gift of communicating with the spirit world via "rapping" (don't as...
Captivity is an intriguing mystery, social commentary and psychological drama that explores the lives of two very different, and yet similar, women. On the surface, Maggie and Clara have nothing in common, and their burgeoning friendship helps propel the story forward while drawing the reader furt...
Set in 1840 and 50s New York, Captivity is an engaging story revolving around the infamous Fox sisters, who single-handedly started the spiritualist movement in America. The sisters Maggie and Kate used 'tapping' to communicate with the dead while their sister Leah led from the background.Intertwine...
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