High Priestess and Empress: Florence Farr and Ellen Terry

Two notorious women set the template for Pamela Colman Smith's tarot cards

Florence Farr and Ellen Terry

Photograph of Florence Farr with her harp and Dame Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth painted by John Singer Sargent.

The second book in my Arcana Series based on Pamela Colman Smith’s tarot cards, has two new muses for Pamela: The High Priestess and The Empress.

There was a sign on the women’s smoking dressing room at the Oregon Sha…