1. Anna Blackwell was a British writer, journalist, and translator who focused on spiritual and social issues.
13 Facts About Anna Blackwell
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Anna Blackwell had a long and successful career as Parisian correspondent of leading colonial papers.
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Anna Blackwell wrote poetry, fairy tales, and essays on occult subjects.
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Anna Blackwell was born at Bristol on 21 June 1816.
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Anna Blackwell's parents were Samuel Blackwell and Hannah Blackwell.
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Anna Blackwell's brother, Henry, was an American advocate for social and economic reform who co-founded the Republican Party and the American Woman Suffrage Association.
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Anna Blackwell then removed to France, where she resided as a newspaper correspondent for forty-two years.
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Anna Blackwell contributed to Once a Week, English Woman's Journal, The Ladies' Repository, and other publications.
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Anna Blackwell was an Associationist being conversant with the social reorganization theories of Charles Fourier, and advocated cooperative methods as opposed to individual and competitive enterprise.
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Anna Blackwell became a member of the Brook Farm community, near Boston, Massachusetts.
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In 1873, the Eclectic Magazine announced that Anna Blackwell had printed for private circulation a pamphlet entitled "Spiritualism and Spiritism", which contained what the magazine described as "some rather strange revelations".
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The publication went on to say that Anna Blackwell informed the editors that she had authentic evidence, revealed to her by two spirits, that so far back as the year 3543 BC she held the distinguished position of a Princess of Abyssinia.
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Anna Blackwell translated Allan Kardec's works from the French, besides writing in the spiritual press numerous articles explaining and defending reincarnation, many years prior to the advent of Helena Blavatsky.