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Review: Pamela Colman Smith: Artist, Feminist, and Mystic , by Elizabeth Foley O’Connor

2023; University of California Press; Volume: 27; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1525/nr.2023.27.1.143

1541-8480

Ethan Doyle White,

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Book Review| August 01 2023 Review: Pamela Colman Smith: Artist, Feminist, and Mystic, by Elizabeth Foley O'Connor Pamela Colman Smith: Artist, Feminist, and Mystic. By Elizabeth Foley O'Connor. Clemson University Press, 2021. xvi + 302 pages. $143.00 hardcover. Ethan Doyle White Ethan Doyle White Independent Scholar Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Nova Religio (2023) 27 (1): 143–144. https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2023.27.1.143 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Ethan Doyle White; Review: Pamela Colman Smith: Artist, Feminist, and Mystic, by Elizabeth Foley O'Connor. Nova Religio 1 August 2023; 27 (1): 143–144. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2023.27.1.143 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentNova Religio Search The artist Pamela Colman Smith is today best known as the illustrator of perhaps the world's most famous set of tarot cards, first published in 1909. The so-called Rider-Waite deck makes reference to both the (male) publisher, William Rider, and the (male) esotericist who commissioned the deck, A. E. Waite, but notably makes no reference to Colman Smith herself. As Elizabeth Foley O'Connor argues in her new biography, this omission "perfectly encapsulates Colman Smith's gendered erasure from the cultural imagination, a type of misogyny that affected many women artists and writers at the turn of the twentieth century" (1). Amid the influence of fourth-wave feminism and a recent rise in publications on women and esotericism, it seems that Colman Smith is finally receiving the academic attention she deserves. Colman Smith was born in London in 1878 to fairly well-off, upper middle-class New Yorkers. Several of her family members were involved... You do not currently have access to this content.