The author was a well known author, reporter for Spiritualism newspapers, and stage performer through out the entire expisodes of spiritualism circles where over many, many years she would meet the same members of her family and friends, regardless of who the medium was that was used to invoke their prescence. Because she felt her reputation was stainless, she felt that in speaking out about her various experiences would encourage people into believing in the facts that there are ghosts of loved ones and that they can communicate to us from their existence. This book details dozens of mediums during the period of about 1860's to 1888, with a hundred ghosts or more being mentioned. While she could not materialze ghosts herself, she was a strong attractor for them being strong in spiritual power. Very interesting reading by a woman strongly Catholic and firm in the belief of the life hereafter.