For Ms. Blackstone, that gig assisting the master illusionist Harry Blackstone Jr. turned into a ... magicians are women, according to a spokeswoman for the Magic Castle, a private clubhouse ...

Five years later, Morine Vickers also failed in her bid to force the Magic Circle to accept female members. The same fate befell talented 18-year-old trickster Stacey Lee in 1985, despite the ...

Winstanley didn’t think she would get away with playing the role of a man, so she enlisted Lloyd’s help, the Magic Circle’s chairwoman Laura London told CNN on Tuesday. The women trained for ...

The first female Magic Circle chair performs a magic trick on BBC reporte Sophie Lloyd disguised herself as a man to join the Magic Circle in 1991, when female magicians were not allowed membership.