Miss Martindale
British writer
Marianne Martindale (also known as Catherine Tyrell, Mari de Colwyn, Mary Scarlett and Mary Guillermin) is an English writer and columnist. As Miss Martindale, she was a prominent public face of Aristasia, an all-female subculture inspired by the Traditionalist School and early twentieth-century culture.
Biography
From 1982 to 1992 Martindale was one of the leaders of the Silver Sisterhood, a Goddess-worshiping new religious movement described as a cult, based in Burtonport, County Donegal in Ireland. The group is known for creating early text adventure video games such as Bugsy and Jack the Ripper, the first game to be given an '18' rating.
Martindale co-founded the Wildfire Club publishing house and edited a collection of stories titled Disciplined Ladies. She received national attention in the British press in the 1990s for her advocacy of corporal punishment. Martindale believed in corporal discipline as spiritual and purifying. Due to the use of caning among the Silver Sisterhood and its prominence in the group's later years, the group was described as fetishistic in nature.
Martindale always maintained that, as an Aristasian, she was neutral on matters of "Tellurian" (Earth) politics. Martindale claimed to be a royalist and imperialist, but with loyalty only to the Aristasian monarchy and empire.
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