Steffi Friedman met occultist Kenneth Grant by chance in 1941 when she was an art student in London when they were teenagers. Thus began a dynamic magickal and artistic partnership leading to marriage in 1946 that endured until Kenneth’s death in 2011. Steffi produced some potent evocative magickal art, and was a close friend of the artist Austin Spare. Her written occult contributions were succinct in expressing occult knowledge and a deep magical imagination and understanding. The Grants were essentially private people who felt the nature of the esoteric work they shared with the world through their books should not encourage a cult of personality. There has been increasing interest in Steffi’s work since her death in 2019.

Caroline Wise initiated the re-publishing of Kenneth Grant’s books in 1989. This led to the emergence of unpublished and new books from Grant which continued with Starfire Publishing which she is part of. Caroline has contributed to several books on goddesses and Mythic London, and on Florence Farr, Pamela Colman Smith, and Austin Osman Spare, She gives talks on these in the UK, USA & Europe.

Through the ‘90s, she was an organiser of Goddess Conferences, and also the Wildwood Conferences, that looked at the connections between folklore and modern paganism. Caroline has attended the Oxford Thelemic Symposiums from their beginning in 1986.