author
Rosa Baughan
A Victorian writer of astrology, palmistry, and handwriting analysis, she helped bring occult and fortune-telling traditions to a wide popular audience. Her books blend curiosity, confidence, and the era’s fascination with character, fate, and hidden knowledge.
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The influence of the stars : a book of old world lore
by Rosa Baughan
About the author
Rosa Baughan was a 19th-century British author whose work centered on astrology, palmistry, physiognomy, and graphology. Available library and catalog records show that she published books including Character Indicated by Handwriting, The Handbook of Palmistry, and The Influence of the Stars: A Book of Old World Lore.
A surviving biographical page places her life from 1829 to 1911, and modern library and public-domain records confirm that her books continued to circulate widely after publication. Her writing sits in the lively Victorian world of spiritualism and popular occult study, where readers looked to signs in the hand, face, stars, and script for clues about personality and destiny.
Today, she is remembered less as a mainstream literary figure than as a notable popular writer in the history of esoteric publishing. Her books remain of interest to readers curious about Victorian beliefs, divination, and the period’s mix of self-help, mysticism, and pseudoscience.