Pamela Colman Smith, Tarot Artist: The Pious Pixie by Dawn Robinson (English) Pa

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What makes a talented female tarot artist, writer, and storyteller, convert from mysticism to Catholicism, dying in penury in Cornwall? The mysterious Pamela Colman Smith worked with creatives like actress Ellen Terry, Bram Stoker, and W. B. Yeats. Why did she turn her back on London bohemian life to work on a challenging Cornish religious mission?

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Pamela Colman Smith is the mysterious artist behind the most renowned tarot deck in the world, for many years forgotten. In a revival of interest in esoteric artists and accessible tarot, curiosity about Pamela is now on the ascendant, but there are still many unanswered questions, especially concerning her later life. Born in London to American parents, Pamela was a prolific illustrator and artist who mixed with the great and good of art and theatre, among them W. B. Yeats and Bram Stoker. 'Adopted' by actress Ellen Terry, she spent some years with the Lyceum Theatre crowd, also working as an exotic storyteller, known as Gelukiezanger, in bohemian London. People have questioned her sexuality, her ethnic origins and alleged synaesthesia, assuming her to be biracial and lesbian. These are discussed but the biggest mystery of all is why she converted from mysticism to Catholicism in 1911, removing herself from vibrant London to the isolated Lizard in the west of Cornwall. There, living in relative obscurity, she evangelised Catholicism in a heavily non-conformist area, before moving to Bude in her sixties.

Author Biography

Dawn Robinson grew fascinated with the acclaimed tarot artist Pamela Colman Smith while researching and writing her last book, Secret Bude, about the beautiful coastal town of Bude where Pamela died in 1951. A five times graduate and mother of five, Dawn previously worked as a teacher, lecturer and freelance feature writer in Lancashire. Now a hyperlocal publisher in Bude, Dawn and her family moved to the south-west in 2010. Dawn now teaches creative writing to adults in Bude which she thoroughly enjoys.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; 1 The Pious Pixie; 2 Childhood: A Bird of Passage; 3 A Woman of Colour?; 4 Her Letters to Bigelow Paine; 5 Mixing with the Great and Good; 6 The Flavour of Rejection; 7 Ellen Terry, Surrogate Mother?; 8 Earning Some Pennies; 9 Bad Bohemians; 10 The Yeats Connection; 11 Fine Artist or Jobbing Illustrator?; 12 A Diluted Talent; 13 Synaesthesia or Simply Technique?; 14 Seeking Meaning: Mysticism and Religion; 15 Pamela the Outsider; 16 No Brooklyn Belle; 17 The Woman Question; 18 Pamela's Love Life; 19 The Sapphic Rumour; 20 Once a Catholic: The Mission Years; 21 Her Cornish Exile; 22 The Catholic Correspondence; 23 Testing Times; 24 Bude's Miss Smith; 25 Did Pamela Die a Pauper?; Appendix: Timeline; Endnotes; Bibliography.

Long Description

Pamela Colman Smith is the mysterious artist behind the most renowned tarot deck in the world, for many years forgotten. In a revival of interest in esoteric artists and accessible tarot, curiosity about Pamela is now on the ascendant, but there are still many unanswered questions, especially concerning her later life. Born in London to American parents, Pamela was a prolific illustrator and artist who mixed with the great and good of art and theatre, among them W. B. Yeats and Bram Stoker. 'Adopted' by actress Ellen Terry, she spent some years with the Lyceum Theatre crowd, also working as an exotic storyteller, known as Gelukiezanger, in bohemian London. People have questioned her sexuality, her ethnic origins and alleged synaesthesia, assuming her to be biracial and lesbian. These are discussed but the biggest mystery of all is why she converted from mysticism to Catholicism in 1911, removing herself from vibrant London to the isolated Lizard in the west of Cornwall. There, living in relative obscurity, she evangelised Catholicism in a heavily non-conformist area, before moving to Bude in her sixties.

Details ISBN1781557411 ISBN-10 1781557411 ISBN-13 9781781557419 Format Paperback Author Dawn Robinson Pages 220 Year 2020 Publication Date 2020-04-16 Subtitle The Pious Pixie Place of Publication Toadsmoor Road Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 133.32424092 Short Title Pamela Colman Smith Language English UK Release Date 2020-04-16 NZ Release Date 2020-04-16 Imprint Fonthill Media Ltd Publisher Fonthill Media Ltd Illustrations 33 colour and black & white photographs Audience General AU Release Date 2020-04-15 We've got this

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