Betty May (born Bessie Golding[1][2] 25 August 1894[3] – 5 May 1980) was a British singer, dancer, and model, who worked primarily in London's West End. She was a member of the London Bohemian set of the inter-war years, claimed to have joined a criminal gang in Paris, was associated with occultist Aleister Crowley,[4] and sat for Augustus John and Jacob Epstein. She became known as the "Tiger Woman".[5] She adopted the name Betty May early in life, for reasons that are unclear.
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- ^ Seabrook, W.B. "The Angel-Child Who 'Saw Hell' and Came Back", Salt Lake City Tribune, 19 August 1928, p. 3.
- ^ Kaczynski, Richard; James Wasserman, eds. (2009). The Weiser Concise Guide to Aleister Crowley. San Francisco: Weiser Books. p. 29. ISBN 978-1-60925-074-4.
- ^ Tiger-Woman: Betty May and the Abbey of Thelema Caroline Potter, A Sketch of the Past, 2013. Retrieved 31 July 2014.
- ^ Betty May. Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine Boundary Gallery, 2011. Retrieved 31 July 2014.