He cited the works of John Parker, William Howitt, Robert Southey, and Abbe Dubois that spoke of the savage nature of Saxons, their extravagant indulgence, drunken behaviour, polygamous marriage practices, and the rampant prostitution in western capitals.
Dexter was at Bendigo in August 1853, where William Howitt heard him advocating republican doctrines at a meeting of diggers.
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This reflected a new-found interest in spiritualism, to which her parents had turned in the early 1850s, as did her book Pioneers of the Spiritual Reformation (1883), which consisted of biographical sketches of the German poet Justinus Kerner and of her father William Howitt, but whose other purpose was to promote spiritualism, mesmerism and similar phenomena.
Their home became a meeting place for writers, artists and reformers - people such as George Cruickshank, William and Mary Howitt, and Ellen Wood.