The Domestic Occult, or, Every Woman’s Luck. I’ve been researching women’s subversive reading and remembering one of my grandmother’s books : ‘Every Woman’s Luck Book’ (1930), which helps you discover a trustworthy man by the shape of his ears - and much more. My research into Sylvia Townsend Warner’s novel ‘Lolly Willowes’ (1926) opened the door to 17th-century gentlemen’s libraries of occult knowledge, to everyday cunning magic, domestic divination and Luck and Fortune-Telling in the mid-20th-Century, via Helena Blavatsky’s Theosophical Society, psychology and women’s magazines. It all shed new light on women’s empowerment in tumultuous times. Read some of my research highlights here.

Photo credit: Matthew Sweet on Twitter. Sue Terry lecturing at Magickal Women Conference, October 2022. It was my great pleasure to be the co-Organiser and event Host of the Magickal Women Conference live in London in October 2022. I had a ball delivering my own talk, ‘The Domestic Occult, or, Every Woman’s Luck’, which BBC arts journalist Matthew Sweet chose as one of his highlights of the event - that’s his photo from Twitter above this blog.