Author: Smith, Warren Sylvester.
Title: The London Heretics: 1870 - 1914.
Description: London Constable & Company, 1967. 1st ed. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), black & white photos, front cover jacket lightly toned, minor edgewear, old price marks, owner's written name. 319 pp. Warren Sylvester Smith provides a new study of the diverse range of Christian and non-Christian seekers after truth in the London scene of 1870 - 1914: the secularists, the positivists, the new Christians, the Quakers, the Catholic modernists, the Theosophists and Spiritualists. Recreates a fascinating period of British social history. Bernard Shaw, Annie Besant, Madame Blavatsky, H. G. Wells, William Morris and all the other rebellious spirits of the period are brought splendidly to life. ISBN: 000683

Keywords: history, social change, religion, christianity, parapsychology, spiritualism, theosophy, britain 000683


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