Fleming, Alice Kipling (18681948)
Sister of British author Rudyard Kipling who became a wellknown
psychic, producing automatic writing under the name
Mrs. Holland. Born June 11, 1868, Alice Kipling was privately
educated. She went to India at age 16 and married British
army officer John Fleming.
While in India she wrote a number of poems, and in 1893
initially experimented with automatic writing. After a long illness
she returned to England in 1902 and in the following year
read the classic study Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily
Death, by F. W. H. Myers. As a result she contacted the secretary
of the Society for Psychical Research (SPR), London, regarding
her own automatic writing.
She took part in the SPRs cross-correspondence tests, in
which several automatic writers produced scripts that only became
meaningful when combined. Her contribution was described
in several papers by Alice Johnson in the Proceedings of
the SPR (190809).
Sources
Berger, Arthur S., and Joyce Berger. The Encyclopedia of
Parapsychology and Psychical Research. New York Paragon
House, 1991.
Johnson, Alice. On the Automatic Writing of Mrs. Holland.
Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research 21
(1908).
. Second Report on Mrs. Hollands Script. Proceedings
of the Society for Psychical Research 24 (1910).
. Supplementary Notes on Mrs. Hollands Scripts.
Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research 22 (1909).
. Third Report on Mrs. Hollands Scripts. Proceedings
of the Society for Psychical Research 25 (1911).
Saltmarsh, H. F. Evidence of Personal Survival from Cross Correspondences.
London G. Bell & Son, 1938.
