Theo Brown

Her father – a scholar, who was later to become Keeper of Classical Antiquities at the British Museum – was unable to look after her, and put her into an orphanage.

[2] Brown studied at Westminster School of Art, where she was taught by Mervyn Peake among others, and where she met her lifelong friend, Margaret Matcham.

he asked shyly, so we exchanged names and addresses ("I'm always known to my friends as 'JK'," he explained), then he continued brightly: "Really, you are just the sort of person who ought to join the Virgil Society; we have some wonderful people in it, and you don't need to know any Latin!"

'I suppose no come-back has ever been so crushing, yet it was all said so lightly and gently it conveyed a world of information about the speaker, and of course I was convinced and charmed."

He had a profound influence on her life thereafter, turning her to studies of Folklore and Comparative Religion, subjects in which she eventually became Lecturer at Exeter University.

She was a significant member of the school of folklorists who were influenced by Jungian psychology, and believed that it was possible to identify in folklore the abiding archetypes of the collective unconscious.