When Spiritualism began as a movement in the mid-19th century, it attracted a host of believers—particularly women, because it granted them powers they couldn’t obtain elsewhere. “I time traveled to the worlds of remarkable women,” writes Jennifer Higgie in the prologue to her 2024 book about women artists of the past two centuries with a spiritualist bent, The Other Side: A Story of Women in Art and the Spirit World. “Women who found solace in the spiritual realm,