Ruth Brandon (born 1943) is a British journalist, historian and author.
Biography
Brandon began her career as a trainee producer for the
BBC, working in radio and television. She moved to work in
freelance journalism and as an author.[1] She is the author of many works of both fiction and non-fiction.[2]
Brandon's popular book The Spiritualists: The Passion for the Occult in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (1983) was republished by
Prometheus Books. The book has been an influence on
skeptics as it debunked
spiritualism by documenting the absurdity and fraud in
mediumship.[3]Martin Gardner wrote "Thousands of books about spiritualism have been written by believers, skeptics, and fence-sitters, but none demonstrates as convincingly as The Spiritualists the unbelievable ease with which persons of the highest intelligence can be flimflammed by the crudest of psychic frauds."[4]
^Marlene Tromp. Altered States: Sex, Nation, Drugs, And Self-transformation in Victorian Spiritualism . State University of New York Press. p. 7.
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