My husband and I contacted Lady G. in 1985.
Some of the best Neo-Pagan circles we attended were held in the temple room of her home. Her rituals always included powerful music and chanting. Some of the chants were in J. R. R. Tolkien's Sinderin Elvish language. Lady G. believed this artificial language created by Tolkien was extemely powerful magickally.
She introduced many of her students to Neo-Pagan Witchcraft with elaborate musical circles involving drumming and singing. She also demanded excellence out of her students. She kept insisting we were part of her magickal family and we should meet with her not just twice a month, but were were unofficially expected to come over every weekend.
I owe quite a lot of my foundational teachings to Lady G.
However, one reason I was interested in Wicca and Witchcraft was because the Charge of the Goddess states: "You should meet once in the month and better it be when the Moon is full." I did not want to attend "religious services" every Sunday like the Christians did.
I was employed. I had also married into a rather large--very Christian--family, who wanted me to attend, with my husband, birthday parties and picnics. I was also in a job that required me to attend continuing education seminars from time to time on weekends.
My husband and I actually had a rather large bunch of biological family members in the Baltimore area and we did not have time to be at the covenstead almost every weekend. Lady G. had a tendency to emotionally adopted coveners as her "spiritual family members". I did try explaining this problem to her, but without much success.
Eventually, some of my family's requirements forced me to move out of state for an extended period of time. Let me make it clear, I did not want to be dealing with this biological family drama in another state, but I was stuck with it.
I ultimately lost contact with Lady G. and her husband, Rowan.
When my husband, Thoron, organized the first USA Farrar tour, we ran into Lady G. and her husband during a seminar by Stewart Farrar at Towson State University. We ran into her again at the Baltimore Science Fiction Convention where she was promoting her first book, The Ragbone Man (January 8, 1990), written under the nom de plume, Charlotte Lawrence.
She later wrote The Holographic Dollhouse (June 12, 1998).
I shall continue to miss her, but I wanted to honor her memory with this article.