His own fame came from his writing. He would move to New York in and work in magazines there until he returned to Boston in By his 30s, Sargent had established himself as a playwright, journalist and poet.
Author:Epes Sargent
In addition, he wrote a series of books for school children to teach spelling and grammar. In his role as editor of the Boston Evening Transcript , he began to bring the abolition movement into mainstream political discourse. Yet late in his life, Sargent's career took a fanciful turn. He became an ardent spiritualist. Leaving behind the journalist's skepticism, Sargent began publishing full-on defenses for the spiritualist movement.
A Guide to the Papers of Epes Sargent: #, -a, -b
The idea of ghosts communicating with the living was nothing new, but spiritualism had gotten a significant boost of publicity when the Fox sisters in began demonstrating how spirits communicated with them through rapping and knocking sounds in their upstate New York home. One of the more prominent spiritualists in Boston, as Frances Ann Conant.
For 17 years, up too her death in , Conant gave free, public seances in Boston. Originally from Portsmouth, N.
One regular ghost at Conant's seances was Dr. Fisher, founder of the Perkins Institution for the Blind, would offer medical advice from the grave through Conant, who acted as a medium. Another practitioner of spiritualism was William H. Mumler , a Boston photographer who had the gift of photographing ghosts.
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He traveled to Bridgewater to photograph Master Herrod, a young psychic, with a ghost hovering over his shoulder. He took a picture of Frances Conant with her brother's ghost behind her.
- A Mind that Found Itself.
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And, most famously, he photographed Mary Todd Lincoln with the ghost of her husband, President Abraham Lincoln, standing behind her. Sargent swallowed it all. The Planchette was a predecessor of the Ouija Board.
It was a small platform that held a pencil and people could use it to write messages from spirits. Sargent's books were filled with his own personal experiences as well as historical references to spiritual phenomena. Sargent, has taken the responsibility of omitting or modifying some passages which involved harsh judgments of those political brethren who, at one time or another, have seen fit to prefer some other Whit to Mr.
Clay as a candidate for the Presidency. He did not perceive that these judgments bore any property relation to Mr.
Works of Epes Sargent
Clay's character or career, while their reproduction would tend to revive feuds and heart-burnings now happily laid to rest. Arctic adventure by sea and land: The select works of Benjamin Franklin: Velasco; a tragedy, in five acts by Epes Sargent 26 editions published between and in English and held by WorldCat member libraries worldwide. Sargent's new monthly magazine in English and held by WorldCat member libraries worldwide. Songs of the sea with other poems by Epes Sargent Book 17 editions published between and in English and held by WorldCat member libraries worldwide.
- Reward Yourself!
- Natures Wisdom.
- Hacia la Gestión por Procesos de Negocio(BPM): Como romper las barreras organizativas. ¿El caos es malo para todos los colaboradores? (Spanish Edition);
- Deus Ex Machina - Reality v1.00.
Planchette, or, The despair of science: American adventure by land and sea: The wonders of the Arctic world: Section on Hall's Polaris expedition p. What's to be done? The woman who dared by Epes Sargent 16 editions published between and in English and Undetermined and held by WorldCat member libraries worldwide.