Medium and Re-Medium mb-code 1238690 Interior view of the writing

Interior view of the writing school

From Provincial Characters

surrounded by admiring ministers

Fire screens kept the heat of an open fire off your face while allowing you to warm the rest of your body

'Allington Castle

Medium and Re-Medium mb-code 1238690 Interior view of the writing'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