Reuben Briggs Davenport

Reuben Briggs Davenport was an American author active in the late 19th century. The work most clearly connected to him in widely available library and bookseller records is The Death-Blow to Spiritualism (1888), a book about the Fox sisters and the spiritualist movement.

Available catalog and bookselling records also link him to A Prankish Pair, Un Petit Menage: A Fantasy (1890), suggesting that his writing ranged beyond exposé into fiction. While detailed biographical information about his life is hard to confirm from the sources found here, his surviving books show an interest in controversy, belief, and popular reading.

Because reliable biographical sources on Davenport are scarce, much about his personal life remains unclear in this overview. What can be said with confidence is that his name has endured primarily through reprints and digital editions of his writings, especially his attack on spiritualism.