Medium and Re-Medium mb-width 2994 'The Bench'

'The Bench'

with a simple bonnet trimmed with purple ribbons

was considered prophetic

The American War of Indepence was formally ended on 6th October

Nottinghamshire

Medium and Re-Medium mb-width 2994 'The Bench''Medium and Re Medium', 1864. Here, Punch has a topical dig at the spiritual industry and the 'idiots of fashion' for providing such a fine harvest for the practitioners. The journal's point is well made by also depicting the Irish 'witch' recently sentenced to a term of imprisonment for utilising her skills to produce apparitions. Mid Victorians were often in the midst of death and this explains the intense interest in spiritualism. The rise in