Haunted Chambers
18 November 2015
Just heard about this book “Haunted Chambers, The Lives Of Early Women Freemasons“. I wonder if it is any good. I will let you know when I read it.
Looking for the Amazon link, I also saw a few other titles that could be interesting as well:
- “Women in Freemasonry” by Louis Goaziou. $ 55,- for 32 pages? I will try the other title first.
- “Women in Freemasonry” by Dudley Wright;
- “Women Freemasons Of The Past” by Dudly Wright;
- “Women Freemasonry And Count Cagliostro’s Egyptian Masonry” by Dudly Wright;
- “Women in Freemasonry 1944” by C. Jinarajadasa;
- Here is one with a more promising title “The Brotherhood of Freemason Sisters: Gender, Secrecy, and Fraternity in Italian Masonic Lodges“
- Jan Snoek, the Dutch Masonic scholar, even wrote a book about “Initiating Women in Freemasonry“. Expensive!
- “New Sources on Women and Freemasonry” by Pierre Mollier.
Plenty to read… Anybody know any of these titles? Are they any good?
One Comment
“Haunted Chambers” makes an amusing read. It is mostly about women who were initiated into regular lodges. Often this was because they spied upon the lodge decided to initiate the women to oblige her to secrecy. In a few occasions the reason for initiation was another. The book is not about mixed or co-Masonry! Kidd wrote another book with that subject: “On Holy Ground: A History of The Honorable Order of American Co-Masonry“, which is (as the title suggests) about the order formerly known as: “The American Federation of Human Rights”.