Second Hand / Antiquarian
Doctor Heidenhoff’s Process by Edward Bellamy
Published: William Reeves, London 1890
Condition: Good. Original green cloth somewhat worn, with title stamped in red on front board. An exlibrary book from the Edinburgh Lodge of the Theosophical Society. Binding firm, pages clean and unmarked.
Edward Bellamy (1850-1898) is better known as a utopian science fiction writer, whose visionary views spawned a political movement. This is an earlier work, its theme is psychological. The ‘process’ in question is a method of removing traumatic memories; the novel explores the unforeseen tragic results that may follow from doing so.
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Ethel Archer (1885-1962), the daughter of a clergyman, was born in Sussex, and expelled from school at the age of fourteen for asking questions in Scripture class. In 1908 she married the aspiring artist Eugene Wieland, and lived with him in West London. The couple made the acquaintance of Aleister Crowley, joined his A∴A∴ magical organization, and set up a publishing company called Wieland and Co., to publish Crowley’s periodical The Equinox, as well as other texts, including Archer’s first poetry collection The Whirlpool (1911). She published two other books, Phantasy and Other Poems (1930) and the occult novel The Hieroglyph (1932).
This 32-page chapbook assembles together twelve poems never collected in the author’s lifetime, which originally appeared in such places as The Equinox and The Occult Review.
Paperback.