Women and Ghosts in Eighteenth-Century England: The Real Mina Harkers

The investigation of haunted houses was a serious, scientific practice long before the Victorian era, and the methodologies of night-time vigils and record keeping, which psychical researchers employed in the nineteenth century, were established in the long-eighteenth century. The witnessing, story-telling and recording of paranormal experiences have created a scientific working space for women when other areas of science have, historically, been barred to them. And, because many of the res...