Research in the Field: Ada Goodrich Freer and Fiona Macleod
Second Sight in the Nineteenth Century January 1, 2017 Elsa Richardson
This chapter examines the investigation into second sight undertaken by the Society for Psychical Research (SPR) in the closing decade of the nineteenth century. Focusing on its chief researcher, Ada Goodrich-Freer, and on her claim to possess ‘Celtic’ blood, Richardson finds a corollary for this desire for identification and proximity in the contemporaneous Celtic Revival. Reading the SPR’s...