Life of Emma Harding Britton

<p>Emma Hardinge Britten's story deserves to be told and understood within a</p><p>variety of historical contexts including Victorian culture religion and politics. Her life</p><p>was extraordinary and yet reflects broader transformations underway for women and for</p><p>all Victorians. Although Britten was born English her life trajectory made her a global</p><p>citizen of the Anglo-centric world. She lived between two continents and travelled in her</p><p>work as a Spiritualist propagandist/political activist as far away as Australia and New</p><p>Zealand. As she herself expressed to her contemporaries in the middle of the nineteenth</p><p>century America felt like the land of her adoption - where she was spiritually</p><p>developed and in whose broad freedom and advanced spiritual light she wishe[d] to</p><p>spend most of her life.1 Musician actor writer theologian political activist magazine</p><p>publisher spirit medium lecturer Spiritualist missionary and self-described witch:</p><p>Emma Hardinge Britten encompassed all of these descriptions.</p>