Graphology in America
Copyright 2001 by Bob Backman
Introduction
Many people are unaware of the influence European thought has had on graphology in the United States. This article describes the early days of graphology in America. The article covers the period up to 1961.
Notions of handwriting interpretations were introduced to the United States well before Michon coined the generic term 'graphology'. These early introductions seem to have been inspired by two authors in England: Byerley (1823) who wrote an essay on handwriting interpretation in an English journal and Isaac D'Israeli (1824) who wrote a section in 'Curiosities of Literature' also published in London. In turn these two English authors had indirectly drawn on Lavater. Edgar Allan Poe is known to have read the works by Byerley and D'Israeli and he wrote two articles entitled 'Autography' which appeared in 1836. Robert Charles Sands (1838) wrote an article 'Thoughts on hand-writing' which appeared in......
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