The Serpent's Path: The Magical Plays of Florence Farr

by Florence Farr, Darcy Kuntz (Editor)

Includes The Beloved of Hathor; The Shrine of the Golden Hawk; The Mystery of Time; and A Dialogue of Vision. Compiled and edited by Darcy Kuntz. Golden Dawn Studies Series 25.

48 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2002

About the author

Florence Beatrice Emery, published under her birth name Florence Farr, was a West End leading actress, composer, director, women's rights activist, journalist, educator, singer, novelist, and leader of the occult order, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. under the motto V.H. Soror Sapientia Sapienti Dono Data.

She was a friend and collaborator of Nobel laureate W.B. Yeats, playwright Oscar Wilde, artists Aubrey Beardsley and Pamela Colman Smith, Masonic scholar Arthur Edward Waite, theatrical producer Annie Horniman, and many other literati of London's fin de siècle era, and even by their standards she was "the bohemian's bohemian."

Reviews

[Shaun Phelps · Rating 5 out of 5]

Enlightening, engaging, and sometimes annoying. I especially enjoyed the first two plays, as Farr's research on Egypt really pays off.