OTHER SIDE: WOMEN ART AND THE SPIRIT WORLD (WEIDENFELD) (HB)

It's not so long ago that a woman's expressed interest in other realms would have ruined her reputation, or even killed her. And yet spiritualism, in various incarnations, has influenced numerous men without repercussion. Author Jennifer Higgie blends memoir, biography and art history to offer a radical reappraisal of a marginalised group of artists – from the twelfth-century mystic, composer and artist Hildegard of Bingen to the nineteenth-century English spiritualist Georgiana Houghton.