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1) The Apparitionists: a tale of phantoms, fraud, photography, and the man who captured Lincoln's ghost
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
In the early days of photography, in the death-strewn wake of the Civil War, one man seized Americas imagination. A "spirit photographer," William Mumler took portrait photographs that featured the ghostly presence of a lost loved one alongside the living subject. Mumler was a sensation: The affluent and influential came calling. Peter Manseau brilliantly captures a nation wracked with grief and hungry for proof of the existence of ghosts and for...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A portrait of the author of "Alice in Wonderland" analyzes contradictory aspects of his character, tapping recently discovered sources to set Carroll's life in the context of Victorian England, and assesses his financial difficulties and his relationship with the real Alice.