Editing Edward White Benson (section)

===Cambridge Ghost Society===

The Cambridge Association for Spiritual Inquiry, known informally as the Cambridge Ghost Society or the Ghostlie Guild, was founded by Benson and [[Brooke Foss Westcott]] in 1851 at Trinity College.<ref name="Oppenheim1985">{{cite book|last=Oppenheim|first=Janet |author-link=Janet Oppenheim|title=The Other World: Spiritualism and Psychical Research in England, 1850–1914|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tppgQgAACAAJ|year=1985|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-26505-8|pages=68, 123}}</ref><ref name="Byrne2010">{{cite book|last=Byrne|first=Georgina |title=Modern Spiritualism and the Church of England, 1850-1939|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tN0sghhm79oC&pg=PA50|year=2010|publisher=Boydell & Brewer|isbn=978-1-84383-589-9|pages=50–51}}</ref> Westcott worked as its secretary until 1860.<ref name="Broad2014">{{cite book|last=Broad|first=C.D. |author-link=C.D. Broad|title=Religion, Philosophy and Psychical Research: Selected Essays|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jOvgAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA86|year=2014|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-83006-1|page=86}}</ref> The society collected and investigated reports of [[ghosts]]. Other notable members included [[Alfred Barry]] and [[Henry Sidgwick]].<ref name="Oppenheim1985" /> It has been described as a predecessor of the [[Society for Psychical Research]].<ref name="Oppenheim1985" /><ref name="McCorristine2010">{{cite book|last=McCorristine|first=Shane |title=Spectres of the Self: Thinking about Ghosts and Ghost-Seeing in England, 1750–1920|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-uKJCIUTZd4C&pg=PA103|year=2010|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-76798-9|page=103}}</ref> According to the ''[[Notebooks of Henry James]]'', his source for the novella ''[[The Turn of the Screw]]'' was the Archbishop of Canterbury (i.e. Benson) at [[Addington Palace]] on 10 January 1895.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.3343/page/n5 The Notebooks of Henry James], edited by F.O. Matthiessen and Kenneth B. Murdock, published George Braziller Inc, New York, 1955</ref>