Project Gutenberg 2025-07-28 Public domain in the USA. 536 Marryat, Florence 1837 1899 Lean, Florence Marryat Church Lean, Mrs. Francis Church, Mrs. Ross Church, Ross, Mrs. The strange transfiguration of Hannah Stubbs $aLondon :$bHutchinson and Co., $c1896. an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer "The strange transfiguration of Hannah Stubbs" by Florence Marryat is a novel written in the late 19th century. It blends domestic realism with occult intrigue, following an exiled Italian aristocrat in London, a pragmatic young doctor, and a country maid whose uncanny mediumship draws them into séances and supernatural tests. Expect a tale of jealousy, guilt, and the thirst for answers beyond the veil, with the title character’s latent powers promising unsettling transformations. The opening of the novel introduces Signor Ricardo, a reserved Italian language teacher in a Soho lodging-house, secretly using a black-draped room for occult experiments. Visited by Dr. Karl Steinberg, he confesses he is Paolo, Marchese di Sorrento, who killed his wife Leonora in a jealous rage and now longs to learn if she was guilty or innocent by summoning her spirit. After an unnerving séance that spooks Steinberg, the men discover their landlady’s new maid, Hannah Stubbs, an ingenuous village girl whose presence triggers poltergeist-like activity. They strike a deal to “treat” her, hold sittings, and hear a controlling voice called James speak through her, promising guidance and hinting that Leonora is near; soon Hannah herself reports seeing a veiled, black-eyed lady on the stairs and by her bed, setting the stage for deeper—and riskier—experiments. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/dli.ministry.23388/ 20250723104911marryat 1896 GB Reading ease score: 80.1 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Spiritualism -- Fiction PR Text Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Category: Novels Category: British Literature 502628 2025-07-30T08:47:11.068397 text/html 481838 2025-07-28T12:11:10 text/html 436666 2025-07-30T08:47:17.177321 application/epub+zip 443384 2025-07-30T08:47:12.245427 application/epub+zip 316372 2025-07-30T08:47:11.603377 application/epub+zip 970746 2025-07-30T08:47:21.286373 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 945621 2025-07-30T08:47:16.671326 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 472333 2025-07-30T08:47:09.868402 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 452499 2025-07-28T12:11:10 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 13850 2025-07-30T08:47:21.437298 application/rdf+xml 13980 2025-07-30T08:47:11.814359 image/jpeg 2159 2025-07-30T08:47:11.706354 image/jpeg 680363 2025-07-30T08:47:11.116369 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia