Publications

Published

The Lady and the Beast: The Extraordinary Partnership between Frieda Harris and Aleister Crowley,

Oxford Studies in Western Esotericism, Oxford University Press, 2024.

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Journal article:

‘”Something completely new in art”: Aleister Crowley’s influence on Frieda Harris’s Artistic Development’

in

Henrik Bogdan, Manon Hedenborg White (eds.), Religion and the Arts Journal, special edition 2024.

https://brill.com/view/journals/rart/28/1-2/rart.28.issue-1-2.xml

Book chapter:

“The Seeker”: Frieda Harris’s Quest for Spiritual Enlightenment’

in

Amy Hale (ed.), Essays of Women in Western Esotericism: Beyond Seeresses and Sea Priestesses, Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities Series, Palgrave MacMillan, 2021

Conference paper:

‘A Cartomantic Marriage: an Exploration of the Relationship between Frieda Harris and Aleister Crowley during the Development of The Book of Thoth, in

Sue Terry, Erzebet Barthold (eds.), Making Magic Happen: Selected Essays from the Inaugural Magickal Women Conference 2019, Magickal Women and Company Publications Ltd, 2021.

Journal article:

‘“Mercury is in a Very Ape-Like Mood”: Frieda Harris’s Perception of Thelema’, in

Manon Hedenborg White (ed.), Aries: Journal for the Study of Western Esotericism, special edition 2021.1 Rethinking Aleister Crowley and Thelema: New Perceptions, December 2020, 125-152.

https://doi.org/10.1163/15700593-02101005

A consolidation of the letters of Frieda Harris to Aleister Crowley 1937-1947, and related primary source material, prepared for the Warburg Institute, University of London by Deja Whitehouse. (Yorke Collection).

Correspondence: Selections: A consolidation of the letters of Frieda Harris to Gerald Yorke, 1954-1964, and related primary source material, Frieda Harris, Deja Whitehouse (ed.). (Yorke Collection).

‘Rolling Stone Orchard – the Artist’s Wartime Retreat,’ published in two parts in Chipping Campden History Society’s Journal Signpost, No. 7 Autumn 2017 and No. 8 Spring 2018.

Accepted for Publication

Book chapter, ‘Frieda Harris, “Artist Executant”, Treasurer, Courier and Companion’, in Chris Giudice, Manon Hedenborg White (eds.), Women of Thelema, Kamuret Press, planned publication 2024.

Book chapter, ‘The Tarot of Aleister Crowley and Frieda Harris’, in Johannes Fiebeg (ed.), The Thoth Tarot, Taschen Books, planned publication 2025.