Marjorie Cameron

Marjorie Cameron Parsons Kimmel , who professionally used the mononym Cameron, was an American artist, poet, actress, and occultist. A follower of Thelema, the new religious movement established by the English occultist Aleister Crowley, she was also the wife of rocket pioneer and fellow Thelemite Jack Parsons.

Cameron was born in Belle Plaine, Iowa, on April 23, 1922. Her father, the railway worker Hill Leslie Cameron, was the adopted child of a ScotsIrish family, while her mother, Carrie Cameron was of Dutch ancestry. She was their first child, followed by three further siblings James , Mary , and Robert . They lived on the wealthier north side of town, although life was nevertheless hard due to the Great Depression. Attending Whittier Elementary School and then Belle Plaine High School, where she did well at art, English, and drama but failed algebra, Latin, and civic lessons, she also joined the athletics, glee club, and chorus. Relating that one of her childhood friends had committed suicide, she characterized herself as a rebellious child, claiming that I became the town pariah160... Nobody would let their kid near me. She enjoyed going to the cinema, and had sexual relationships with various men falling pregnant, her mother performed an illegal home abortion. In 1940, the Cameron fami

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