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Brandon began her career as a trainee producer for the [[British Broadcasting Corporation|BBC]], working in [[radio]] and [[television]]. She moved to work in [[Freelancer|freelance journalism]] and as an author.<ref>[http://www.ruthbrandon.co.uk/?page_id=2 Biography for Ruth Brandon]</ref> She is the author of many works of both [[fiction]] and [[Non-fiction|nonfiction]].<ref>[http://www.cerisepress.com/01/01/surreal-lives-ruth-brandon/view-all An Interview with Ruth Brandon by Louis E. Bourgeois ]</ref> |
Brandon began her career as a trainee producer for the [[British Broadcasting Corporation|BBC]], working in [[radio]] and [[television]]. She moved to work in [[Freelancer|freelance journalism]] and as an author.<ref>[http://www.ruthbrandon.co.uk/?page_id=2 Biography for Ruth Brandon]</ref> She is the author of many works of both [[fiction]] and [[Non-fiction|nonfiction]].<ref>[http://www.cerisepress.com/01/01/surreal-lives-ruth-brandon/view-all An Interview with Ruth Brandon by Louis E. Bourgeois ]</ref> |
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Her popular book ''The Spiritualists: The Passion |
Her 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 influential to [[Skepticism|skeptics]] as it debunked [[spiritualism]] by documenting the absurdity and fraud in [[mediumship]].<ref>Marlene Tromp. ''Altered States: Sex, Nation, Drugs, And Self-transformation in Victorian Spiritualism'' . State University of New York Press. p. 7. ISBN 978-0791467398</ref> [[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."<ref>[[Martin Gardner]]. (1988). ''The New Age: Notes of a Fringe Watcher''. Prometheus Books. p. 175. ISBN 978-0879754327</ref> |
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Brandon lives in [[London]] with her husband Philip Steadman an art historian.<ref>[http://www.harpercollins.com/authors/35265/Ruth_Brandon/index.aspx Ruth Brandon at Harper Collins Publishers]</ref> They had a daughter, Lily, born 1982.<ref>[http://www.groveatlantic.com/?author=Ruth+Brandon Ruth Brandon at Grove Atlantic]</ref> |
Brandon lives in [[London]] with her husband Philip Steadman an art historian.<ref>[http://www.harpercollins.com/authors/35265/Ruth_Brandon/index.aspx Ruth Brandon at Harper Collins Publishers]</ref> They had a daughter, Lily, born 1982.<ref>[http://www.groveatlantic.com/?author=Ruth+Brandon Ruth Brandon at Grove Atlantic]</ref> |
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*''Being Divine: Biography of Sarah Bernhardt'' (1991) |
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*''The Burning Question: The Anti-nuclear Movement Since 1945'' (1987) |
*''The Burning Question: The Anti-nuclear Movement Since 1945'' (1987) |
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*''The Spiritualists: The Passion |
*''The Spiritualists: The Passion for the Occult in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries'' (1983) |
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==References== |
==References== |
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 nonfiction.[2]
Her 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 influential to 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]
Brandon lives in London with her husband Philip Steadman an art historian.[5] They had a daughter, Lily, born 1982.[6]
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