Women of the Golden Dawn: Rebels and Priestesses - Maud Gonne, Moina Bergson Mathers, Annie Horniman, Florence Farr - Hardcover

Greer, Mary K.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0892815167 ISBN 13: 9780892815166

Publisher: Inner Traditions Bear and Company, 1994

Synopsis

Provides biographies of turn of the century spiritualists

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Review:

. . . reads like an elegant novel; I couldn't put it down. Discover what feminist women were all about a hundred years ago. -- Vicki Noble, author of Motherpeace: A Way to the Goddess

Explores the stories of these strong, interesting women. Well-written and well-researched. -- Library Journal

This is the best kind of feminist scholarship. It is not aggressive or shrill, but warm and personal in its engagement with its subjects, treating them as people, not merely as specimens under a microscope. -- Aries, 1995

From the Author:

A biography of women who changed the world 100 years ago.
Four women -- Irish revolutionary Maud Gonne, artist and psychic Moina Bergson Mathers, theatrical producer Annie Horniman, and actress Florence Farr -- formed the heart and soul of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, meeting in the 1890s to practice magic and to work toward spiritual growth. They then used their magic to change the politics, literature and theatre of their time, heralding a "new age" and "a new woman." I was first drawn to the Golden Dawn women through their work with Tarot. Gaining access to rare books, private collections, and original letters and journals, I spent six years in research and writing. My whole life, it seems -- as a college professor and director of women's studies, a Literature and Theatre major, and tarot reader, priestess and astrologer -- was a preparation for this exhilarating task of reclaiming our magical foremothers. With what I learned from their lives I gleaned twelve self-empowering principles that we can effectively use to achieve our own personal goals. Community Endeavor wrote that this book "can be read as an elegant novel, a woman's history and feminist source book, or an introduction to the magical arts." This is exactly what I had hoped to accomplish.

About this edition

• Publisher: Inner Traditions Bear and Company
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0892815167
• ISBN 13: 9780892815166
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 512