Elizabeth M. Foote Denton (1826-1916) was born in Williamstown, Massachusetts, and died in Wellesley, Massachusetts. She was the wife of William Denton (1823-1883), a geologist, naturalist, and spiritualist. She co-authored several books with her husband on the subject of psychometry--a form of extrasensory perception whereby a person claims to learn the history of an object by making physical contact with it.

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