England’s Lost Eden: Adventures in a Victorian Utopia. Philip Hoare

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       DEDICATION

      For Mark

      CONTENTS

       Cover

       Title Page

Dedication

Map

Prologue: A place of royal death

PART I: Green and Pleasant Land

1 A Voice in the Wilderness

      Into the forest; Mary Ann’s life & visions in Suffolk; the Girlingites’ debut

2 Turning the World Upside-Down

      Bunhill Fields & the Camisards; Ann Lee & the Shakers; American utopias

3 Human Nature

      Elder Evans & James Burns; Human Nature & spirit photography; the mission to Mount Lebanon

PART II O Clouds Unfold!

4 The Walworth Jumpers

      Sects, spiritualism, & Swedenborg; Mary Ann at the Elephant & Castle

       5 The New Forest Shakers

      Hordle, the Girlingites’ heyday; Peterson & his mesmeric experiments

       6 The Dark and Trying Hour

      Eviction & despair; Mary Ann examined on the condition of her mind

       PART III Arrows of Desire

       7 The Sphere of Love

      Broadlands & the Cowpers; Rossetti & Beata Beatrix; Myers & Gurney; the Broadlands Conferences

       8 The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century

      Ruskin & the Spiritualists, the Guild of St George & Fors Clavigera; Brantwood

       9 The Names of Butterflies

      Rose La Touche, Broadlands & the spirits

       PART IV The Countenance Divine

       10 This Muddy Eden

      Isaac Batho’s mission; Auberon Herbert & naked dancing; Julia Wood interned; Girlingites on tour

       11 Mr Peterson’s Tower

      A.T.T.P. & Wm Lawrence, pet medium; the tower rises

       12 The Close of the Dispensation

       The Census; the rival ‘Mother’; Mary Ann’s stigmata

       PART V A New Jerusalem

       13 In Borderland

      Laurence Housman & ‘Jump-to-Glory Jane’; Herbert & Theosophy; Ruskin’s last days; Georgiana & the Wildes; The Sheepfold

       14 Resurgam

      The quest for Mary Ann & her followers; Peterson’s transition

       Epilogue: The forest once more

       Source and Bibliographical Notes

       Index

       Acknowledgements

       About the Author

       Praise

       By the Same Author

       Copyright

       About the Publisher