06-05-2026, 09:41 AM
Rebeka Erdelyiova, Newcastle University.
Not specifically alchemical but an interesting read.
By the turn of the twentieth century, the occult had become one of Britain’s most compelling cultural obsessions, so long as it remained at a safe distance. The British public devoured occult fiction with morbid fascination. Novels and a wide spectrum of newspapers, from sensational popular papers such as John Bull, Morning Leader, and World Magazine, to metropolitan, provincial, and overseas titles including Eastbourne Gazette, Evening Dispatch, The Washington Times, and Civil Military Gazette, were filled with ghosts, séances, secret orders, and sinister magicians, turning occultism into a familiar cultural language.
https://www.epoch-magazine.com/post/nove...-occultism
Not specifically alchemical but an interesting read.
By the turn of the twentieth century, the occult had become one of Britain’s most compelling cultural obsessions, so long as it remained at a safe distance. The British public devoured occult fiction with morbid fascination. Novels and a wide spectrum of newspapers, from sensational popular papers such as John Bull, Morning Leader, and World Magazine, to metropolitan, provincial, and overseas titles including Eastbourne Gazette, Evening Dispatch, The Washington Times, and Civil Military Gazette, were filled with ghosts, séances, secret orders, and sinister magicians, turning occultism into a familiar cultural language.
https://www.epoch-magazine.com/post/nove...-occultism