Olivia Robertson (1917-2013) was an Irish writer, artist and spiritual leader, born in London to Manning and Nora Durdin-Robertson and descended from the theologian Richard Graves. She served as a nurse in Bedfordshire during the Second World War, studied at University College Dublin, and published her first book in 1946. In 1960 she moved to Huntington Castle in Ireland with her brother Lawrence and his wife Pamela, and in 1963 the family founded the Huntington Castle Centre for Meditation and Study there. In 1976 she co-founded the Fellowship of Isis, a goddess centered new religious movement, and served as its high priestess, later representing it at the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago in 1993. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Wexford, Ireland
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She studied at University College Dublin in 1942, and then worked at Dublin Corporation until 1946.
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Olivia Melian Durdin-Robertson (13 April 1917-14 November 2013) was an author, artist, co-founder and high priestess of the Fellowship of Isis.
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Olivia Melian Durdin-Robertson (13 April 1917-14 November 2013) was an author, artist, co-founder and high priestess of the Fellowship of Isis.
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