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A. Leah (Ann Leah) Underhill
1814–1890
Remembered as the eldest of the Fox sisters, she helped bring early Spiritualism into the public eye in the mid-19th century. She is also known for writing The Missing Link in Modern Spiritualism, a firsthand account tied to that movement.
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The Missing Link in Modern Spiritualism
by A. Leah (Ann Leah) Underhill
About the author
Born Ann Leah Fox and later known as Leah Underhill, she is best known as the oldest of the Fox sisters, the family closely associated with the rise of American Spiritualism. Accounts of her life consistently place her at the center of the movement's early public story in New York state during the late 1840s.
As A. Leah Underhill, she wrote The Missing Link in Modern Spiritualism, first published in the 1880s. The book looks back on the beginnings of the movement and helped preserve her version of those events for later readers.
She lived from 1814 to 1890. Surviving historical images are limited, but a period portrait associated with Leah and her sisters appears on the Fox sisters' Wikipedia page.