this revisionist history totally ignores the sociopolitical radicalism of Victorian Spiritualists, many of whom were early feminist leaders

From my point of view, that's the most compelling aspect of the movement--I believe there was some overlap with abolitionism as well? I did a bit of research on the 19th-c spiritualist Laura Edmonds Gilmore for a fic I never finished and the stories about her and her friends/family are fascinating.