Catherine Crowe — British Writer died on December 29, 1876

Catherine Ann Crowe, née Stevens,, was an English novelist, story writer and playwright, who also wrote for children... (wikipedia)

What a man has made himself he will be; his state is the result of his past life, and his heaven or hell is in himself.
A great many things have been pronounced untrue and absurd, and even impossible, by the highest authorities in the age in which they lived, which have afterwards, and, indeed, within a very short period, been found to be both possible and true.
I cannot but think that it would be a great step if mankind could familiarise themselves with the idea that they are spirits incorporated for a time in the flesh re spirits incorporated for a time in the flesh.