Medium and Re-Medium mb-code 1238690 Nicola Bryant

Nicola Bryant

'Allington Castle

this image shows the Paddington or Grand Junction Canal

surrounded by admiring ministers

From Provincial Characters

Medium and Re-Medium mb-code 1238690 Nicola Bryant'Medium and Re Medium', 1864. Here, Punch has a topical dig at the spiritual industry and the 'idiots of fashion' for providing such a fine harvest for the practitioners. The journal's point is well made by also depicting the Irish 'witch' recently sentenced to a term of imprisonment for utilising her skills to produce apparitions. Mid Victorians were often in the midst of death and this explains the intense interest in spiritualism. The rise in