Her grandfather’s well-appointed library at his house in Bridlington on the Millicent Sowerby was a young Edwardian student at Girton College, Cambridge, who had acquired a great love of old books, especially from Richmond sees Norton's influence on two 1944 stories by one of her lovers, Beresford Conroy, published in Pertinent magazine, and these stories are helpfully included in an appendix.Į. Both are expertly curated by Keith Richmond, whose introduction and commentaries are meticulous and highly interesting. An attractive reprint (expanded with some ancillary materials) came out from Teitan Press in 2010, in an edition of 666 copies. Such stories were only nebulously known until tracked down and republished in 1996 by Typographeum Press in a small limited edition (150 copies) as Three Macabre Stories.
One lesser-considered aspect of her art is the weird fiction she wrote in her youth. Norton responded by playing up the role for the tabloids, though her brazenness certainly came at a cost. Norton suffered under the toxic censorship in the 50s and by the idiotic sensationalism of the press, who dubbed her "The Witch of King's Cross" (Kings Cross being the area in which she resided in Sydney). The new documentary, The Witch of Kings Cross (2021), is a short film (75 minutes) tracing the life of the talented occult artist and bohemian Rosaleen Norton (1917-1979), a New Zealand-born Australian resident.
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