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Lizzie Doten

Short Name: Lizzie Doten
Full Name: Doten, Lizzie, 1827-1913
Birth Year: 1827
Death Year: 1913

Doten, Lizzie. (fl. 1864). A Spiritualist medium who recorded the hymn "O thou whose love is changeless" from "Miss Sprague."

--Leonard Ellinwood, DNAH Archives

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Elizabeth "Lizzie" Doten (April 1, 1827 – January 15, 1913) was an American poet and a prominent spiritualist lecturer and trance speaker and writer who received special attention for her supposed ability to channel poetry from Edgar Allan Poe after his death. She wrote poetry, fiction, and essays and edited an annual spiritualist publication, Lily of the Valley. She was active on the lecture circuit between 1864 and 1880.
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