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EAGLE, Georgiana (1835 – 1911). Miss Georgiana Eagle The Celebrated Illusionist, Mesmeriser, and Exlecto-Biologist. Sunderland: W. Hall, Printer, ca. 1861. Large letterpress broadside for Ms. Eagle, who later worked under her married name of Madame Card and as the “Mysterious Lady,” this bill advertising her three-part show including magic tricks performed “entirely without apparatus,” as well as hypnotic feats, and a demonstration of electro biology, including the delivery of shocks to members of the audience “without a battery, by pressure on the nerves alone.” 29 ½ x 9 ¾”. Wear at old folds and to extremities. A scarce playbill of a female magician of the mid-nineteenth century. Ms. Eagle learned the trade from her father, the self-styled “Wizard of the South,” Barnardo Eagle. She reportedly performed for European royalty and was rumored to have conducted a séance for Queen Victoria.