Column of Dust
Author: first_name: Evelyn
last_name: Underhill
Language: English
Year: 1909

Evelyn Underhill, the preeminent scholar of mysticism, wrote 3 novels in her youth, of which this is #3.  Constance Tyrrel, a poor but literate woman works in a bookshop, suffers ennui, wonders if there is more to life than what she sees, invokes a ritual that she finds in a dusty old volume.  Meanwhile, a disembodied spirit is consumed by a desire to know about the nature and content of the material world.  It is drawn by Constance's call, where it appears as a column of dust.  The two embark o