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Olivia Robertson
Olivia Melian Durdin-Robertson, known as Olivia Robertson (13 April 1917 – 14 November 2013〔) was an author, artist, co-founder and high priestess of the Fellowship of Isis.〔Clarke, Victoria Mary (4 August 2012). ("Interview with Lady Olivia Durdin Robertson" )〕〔("Ireland: The magic of midsummer" ). ''The Daily Telegraph'', 27 June 1998〕
==Early life and education==
Born at St Mary's Hospital in London, Olivia Robertson was descended from the theologian Richard Graves, a cousin of the author Robert Graves,〔("An Interview with Olivia Durdin-Robertson" ). ''Pagan News'', August 1992〕〔(Robert Graves and Olivia Robertson ), Controverscial.Com〕 and was a grandchild of Thomas Herbert Robertson. She was the second of four children born to Nora and Manning Durdin-Robertson, an architect and town planner and a friend of the poet W. B. Yeats. Her family lived in Reigate in Surrey before moving back to their ancestral home Huntington Castle in Ireland, which had been inherited in 1925 on the death of her grandmother. From 1938 Robertson was educated at Heathfield School, Ascot and the Grosvenor School of Modern Art.
Following the outbreak of World War II, although a pacifist she served as a V.A.D. nurse in Bedfordshire in 1940. She studied at University College Dublin in 1942, and then worked at Dublin Corporation until 1946. In 1946 she published her first book, ''St. Malachy's Court''. Further books followed, including ''Field of the Stranger'' (1948), which was awarded the London Book Society's Choice award; ''The Golden Eye'' (1949), ''Miranda Speaks'' (1950), and ''It's an Old Irish Custom'' (1954). Her book ''The Dublin Phoenix'' (1956) sold out on its first day.〔("Olivia Robertson" ). Fellowship of Isis〕
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