Wilhelmina beatrice rahner6/14/2023 ![]() Bess Houdini lives in these mesmerizing poems!" -Laurence Carr, publisher, Lightwoodpress. Not only a vibrant poetry collection, this work becomes a feminist document of a woman whose voice must be heard. ![]() This insightful and moving collection reincarnates the spirit of Bess Houdini, bringing forth her emotional life through narrative and fictional auto-biographical poems, placing her husband, “The Great” Harry Houdini in the background. "Jan Zlotnik Schmidt has brought her own conjuring trick to readers. After Houdini’s unexpected death from a burst appendix and peritonitis on Halloween, 1926, for ten years, Bess held seances, hoping to make contact with the spirit of her dead husband. ![]() The more famous Houdini became, the more Bess faded into the background. Harry met her while he and his brother were doing their magic act at Coney. By 1899, Harry concentrated on his escape acts, and throughout the rest of his career, became famous for breaking out of jails, cells, trunks, and straitjackets among other feats of daring and conjuring. Harrys wife was Wilhelmina Beatrice Rahner, but everybody called her Bess. After a short courtship of several weeks, they married on Jand began performing magic acts, seances, mentalist acts, and their most famous trick-the Metamorphosis-at circuses, dime museums, and vaudeville halls across the country. ![]() Bess met Harry Houdini when she was performing as part of a song and dance act, entitled The Floral Sisters, in Coney Island. Wilhelmina Beatrice Rahner, or Bess Houdini, was born on Januin Brooklyn, New York. ![]()
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