Catherine Crowe was a wildly acclaimed Victorian novelist, 
playwright, social critic and …ghost hunter? Her novels were as popular 
as Charles Dickens,’ and Ralph Waldo Emerson, Harriet Martineau, and 
George Eliot were her ardent fans. And her pioneering catalog of ghosts 
and the supernatural, The Night Side of Nature, was one of the first and most influential works to be adopted by the up-and-coming Spiritualist movement. So how did this incredibly talented, incredibly famous woman 
disappear from our collective memory? The answer involves a few 
misbehaving spirits, a little bit of nudity, and a whole lot of 
mean-spirited gossip by one very famous frenemy. 
For this year’s <a href="https://whatshernamepodcast.com/category/halloween-specials/">Halloween Special</a>, Professor Ruth Heholt helps Olivia resurrect the wildly famous, wildly fascinating, wildly under-appreciated Catherine Crowe.
Selections from Catherine Crowe’s works read for us by Matthew Meikle and Emma Porter.
<a href="https://whatshernamepodcast.com/music/">Music</a> featured in this episode provided by Amanda Setlik Wilson, Kevin MacLeod, Doug Maxwell, Myuu, Brian Bolger, Jesse Gallagher, and the Weber State University Choirs and Orchestra. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices">podcastchoices.com/adchoices</a>

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