Pamela Colman Smith

Elizabeth Foley O’Connor is an Associate Professor of English at Washington College, where she teaches classes in modernism, twentieth century British literature, postcolonial literature, journalism, and composition. She has published essays on Pamela Colman Smith, James Joyce, Lizzie Twigg, Kate O’Brien, Jean Rhys, Ford Madox Ford, and fin de siecle little magazines. Her reviews have appeared in Breac: A Digital Journal of Irish Studies, the James Joyce Quarterly, the Joyce Studies Annual, and the Woolf Studies Annual. She wrote the biography section for Pamela Colman Smith: The Untold Story, a mass market art book, published in 2018.

'Foley O’Connor takes the reader on a moving ride through Colman Smith’s unconventional and trailblazing life. [...] With passion and dedication to her subject, Foley O’Connor portrays Colman Smith as a magical tour de force; she details Colman Smith’s small victories and massive losses in an informative tone that still makes for an emotional read as we watch Colman Smith achieve a modicum of success only for it to be lost or taken away again. [...] Through the eyes of Foley O’Connor, Pixie has a second chance to be appreciated for the thoroughly modern woman and artist she was.'Jill O'Connor, Supernatural Studies

• IntroductionChapter One: Naming,Identity, and Jamaican Roots Chapter Two: CriticalReception, Key Early Influences, and Emergence as a Feminist ArtistChapter Three: Becoming Pixie: Performativity, W.B. Yeats, and the Green SheafChapter Four: Anansi Folktales, Irish Myths, and TarotChapter Five: Musical Visions, Suffrage, and FeministVoiceEpilogueNotesIndex