No history of spiritism would be complete without references to this remarkable writer, who has been called the female Apostle Paul of the spiritism movement. 

She was born in London, England, in 1823. She was an Englishwoman who had gone to New York with a theatre company and remained in America, where she lived with her mother. Educated in Protestantism, she firmly rejected any contact with spiritists, but in 1856 she again came into contact with Spiritism, receiving irrefutable proof of the truths it proclaimed. She soon discovered that she was also a medium, and arguably one of the best documented cases, which achieved remarkable sensationalism, was her information that the ship "Pacific" had sunk in the middle of the Atlantic, with all the passengers perishing. Following this revelation, she was persecuted by the company that owned the ship for repeating what she had been told by the spirit of one of the victims of the disaster. Her mediumistic information was later proven to be true, as the ship had sunk and never reappeared. 

In 1866 she returned to England, where she was very active, producing two major works: ‘Modern American Spiritualism’ and ‘Miracles of the Nineteenth Century’, books which represented interesting research combined with clear and logical reasoning. In 1870 she married Dr. Britten, a spiritism as devoted as herself. All indications are that it was a truly happy union. 

In 1878 they travelled to Australia and New Zealand as missionaries of Spiritism, spending many years there and founding numerous societies. During their stay in Australia, he wrote "Faith, Facts and Frauds of Religious History", a book that is still relatively influential today. 

Among other monuments, Emma Hardinge Britten founded "The Two Worlds" in Manchester, an organ which still enjoys a wide circulation today, representing a publicity vehicle of great penetration throughout the world. Ernesto Bozzano, one of the greatest spiritist writers, profound researcher, man of science, emeritus polemicist, whose work honours and magnifies the Spiritist Doctrine, in a remarkable testimony written for the magazine "La Luz Del Porvenir" (The Light of the Future), related that the book "Modern American Spiritism" was very useful to him during the period of his conversion to Spiritism. 

 Emma Harding Britten's work in the early days of Spiritism was one of the most important, being responsible for a large number of conversions, including those of very prominent people of the time. 

Britten's husband died in 1894 and she died in Manchester in 1899, on 2 October, aged 76.