joshquixote (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} joshquixote) wrote in ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif){kind=small} weretheyhot,@ 2008-04-08 16:09:00 |
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Cora Hatch
"Cora Lodencia Veronica Scott (1840–1923) was one of the best-known mediums of the Spiritualist (religious movement) movement of the last half of the 19th century. Most of her work was done as a trance lecturer, though she also wrote some books whose composition was attributed to spirit guides rather than her own personality."
--thanks, Wikipedia!
So, basically, a spiritualist charlatan whose career was built on the fact that a beautiful young girl like her couldn't be a liar or that good of a public speaker. Wonderful! Poor thing was married four times though... her first husband took advantage of her by becoming her manager and then reportedly abusing her. He was also like twenty years older than her. Undeserving git.
I think she's extremely lovely, so I hope you think the same. This picture was taken from when she was in her teens, at the beginning of her career. More can be found about her at http://www.assumption.edu/whw/Hatch/tar
Her contemporaries agree:
"Meanwhile a fair and slender girl, on whose flowing ringlets seventeen summers sit with light and easy grace, is visible in the background. She remains seated with upraised eyes fixed in an expression of intense but confident invocation. As the questions to be discussed are stated, an indescribable change steals over her face. It is a look of rapt entrancement, such as our fancy would depict for the Pythoness or Sybil of classic faith. It is a masterpiece of acting -- if acting it is."
"...evinced a breadth and clearness of mental culture really wonderful in a girl of seventeen. Her graceful and surpassing elegance of diction was another fruitful theme. A calm, equally sustained manner; a rich, clear voice, that filled the ear without one overstrained vote, and a modest unconsciousness of display, or an entire absorption in the subject matter, are the characteristics of Mrs. Cora Hatch as a public speaker."
"Popular fascination with Cora Hatch also arose because of her combination of childlike innocence and adult sexuality. There were the ringlets, the rapt expression, the off-the-shoulder dress (not at all the usual costume for female lecturers) so perfectly out of keeping with the cross hanging from her neck. There was the trance state."
"Cora Lodencia Veronica Scott (1840–1923) was one of the best-known mediums of the Spiritualist (religious movement) movement of the last half of the 19th century. Most of her work was done as a trance lecturer, though she also wrote some books whose composition was attributed to spirit guides rather than her own personality."
--thanks, Wikipedia!
So, basically, a spiritualist charlatan whose career was built on the fact that a beautiful young girl like her couldn't be a liar or that good of a public speaker. Wonderful! Poor thing was married four times though... her first husband took advantage of her by becoming her manager and then reportedly abusing her. He was also like twenty years older than her. Undeserving git.
I think she's extremely lovely, so I hope you think the same. This picture was taken from when she was in her teens, at the beginning of her career. More can be found about her at http://www.assumption.edu/whw/Hatch/tar
Her contemporaries agree:
"Meanwhile a fair and slender girl, on whose flowing ringlets seventeen summers sit with light and easy grace, is visible in the background. She remains seated with upraised eyes fixed in an expression of intense but confident invocation. As the questions to be discussed are stated, an indescribable change steals over her face. It is a look of rapt entrancement, such as our fancy would depict for the Pythoness or Sybil of classic faith. It is a masterpiece of acting -- if acting it is."
"...evinced a breadth and clearness of mental culture really wonderful in a girl of seventeen. Her graceful and surpassing elegance of diction was another fruitful theme. A calm, equally sustained manner; a rich, clear voice, that filled the ear without one overstrained vote, and a modest unconsciousness of display, or an entire absorption in the subject matter, are the characteristics of Mrs. Cora Hatch as a public speaker."
"Popular fascination with Cora Hatch also arose because of her combination of childlike innocence and adult sexuality. There were the ringlets, the rapt expression, the off-the-shoulder dress (not at all the usual costume for female lecturers) so perfectly out of keeping with the cross hanging from her neck. There was the trance state."
