Oscar Wilde from Purgatory by Hester Travers Smith (1868 - 1949)

About Oscar Wilde from Purgatory by Hester Travers Smith (1868 - 1949)

Hester Dowden, who wrote under the name Hester Travers Smith, was an Irish spiritualist medium. She claimed to have communicated with the spirits of various celebrities. In Oscar Wilde from Purgatory, she reproduces the text of her "conversations" with the Irish poet and playwright, conducted via a Ouija board and automatic writing. Wilde proves just as talkative after death as he was in life. His spirit revels in the complements paid to his work by Travers Smith and her colleagues, describes how it feels to exist without a body, and pronounces James Joyce's recently published novel Ulysses a "great bulk of filth". Listeners who are primarily interested in the conversations, rather than Travers Smith's lengthy discussion of them, are directed to Chapter 1 and the Appendices. - Summary by Rob Marland

Publisher

Valerio Di Stefano

Category

arts · fiction

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

4 Sept 2023

Latest episode

4 Sept 2023

Latest episodes

10 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   4 Sept 2023

   Foreword, Preface, and Introduction

2. 

   4 Sept 2023

   Chapter VII: To the Public

3. 

   4 Sept 2023

   Chapter I: The Psychic Messages and Automatic Writings of Oscar Wilde - part 2

4. 

   4 Sept 2023

   Chapter IV: The Sub-Conscious

5. 

   4 Sept 2023

   Chapter VI: The Spiritist Explanation

6. 

   4 Sept 2023

   Appendices

7. 

   4 Sept 2023

   Chapter II: The Automatic Writing

8. 

   4 Sept 2023

   Chapter III: The Ouija Board

9. 

   4 Sept 2023

   Chapter V: Cryptesthesia

10. 

    4 Sept 2023

    Chapter I: The Psychic Messages and Automatic Writings of Oscar Wilde - part 1

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