Betty May (1) (1894–1980)

In this book Betty May recounts her adventures from childhood up through a few years past her tumultuous stay at Crowley's abbey in Sicily. The style is breezy. She describes events pertaining to her work as an artist’s model and a member of a French robbery gang, also an habitué of various bars & coffee houses. For me the most interesting things in the book are her descriptions of day to day life in the Abbey of Thelema. Betty was not a deep thinker so don’t expect soul-searching reflection.… (más)