Blurring the lines between play-acting, ritual and reality
October 25, 2021 10:42 AM Subscribe
Florence Farr was a muse and lover of George Bernard Shaw and William Butler Yeats
She was an English actress, occultist, and an important member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, and a writer whose ''The Dancing Fawn'' had a cover by Aubrey Beardsley
She was an English actress, occultist, and an important member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, and a writer whose ''The Dancing Fawn'' had a cover by Aubrey Beardsley
GBS trying to play Pygmalion... There's a short memoir by GBS about William Morris, in which pretty much all he could find to say about Jane Morris was that she didn't talk much in his presence and wasn't very (to him) scrutable.
DUDE, CAN YOU NOT TELL WHEN A WOMAN SIMPLY CANNOT STAND YOU.
I'd bet a lot that was happening with Florence Farr too. That quote from his letter to her is... certainly a thing. A massively misogynist and dehumanizing thing.
posted by humbug at 1:33 PM on October 25, 2021
DUDE, CAN YOU NOT TELL WHEN A WOMAN SIMPLY CANNOT STAND YOU.
I'd bet a lot that was happening with Florence Farr too. That quote from his letter to her is... certainly a thing. A massively misogynist and dehumanizing thing.
posted by humbug at 1:33 PM on October 25, 2021
Metafilter: a cauldron of simmering hellbroth
posted by cenoxo at 6:54 PM on October 25, 2021 [2 favorites]
posted by cenoxo at 6:54 PM on October 25, 2021 [2 favorites]
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