“While trances had long been associated with biblical figures and medieval saints, American audiences of this era had become familiar with a new type of dream state, the mesmeric or hypnotic trance first noted by the eighteenth century Austrian doctor Friedrich Anton Mesmer.”
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Defiant Brides: The Untold Story of Two Revolutionary-Era Women and the Radical Men They Married
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