into it, protecting it, making it accessible and available for people to research, learn from and enjoy." John Belham-Payne became the group's chairman, while Ashley Mortimer, Brian Botham, and Trish Botham were appointed as trustees. Aside from Valiente's autobiography, The Rebirth of Witchcraft, the first published biography of Valiente was written by Jonathan Tapsell and published as Ameth: The Life and Times of Doreen Valiente by Avalonia Books in 2013. Doyle White characterised this volume as being "all-too-brief". Belham-Payne initially considered writing a biography of Valiente, but feeling that he was not academically qualified to do so, he commissioned Heselton – who had previously published several books on Gardner – to do so, publishing the result as Doreen Valiente: Witch through his Doreen Valiente Foundation in 2016. It held its launch party at the esoteric-themed bookstore, Treadwell's, in central London, in February 2016, shortly after Belham-Payne's death. Bibliography A bibliography of Valiente's published books, as well as her contributions to the books published by others, appeared as an appendix to Heselton's biography of her. References Footnotes Bibliography External links - the Doreen Valiente Foundation website The Wica - Information on Doreen Valiente and other Craft Elders. Doreen Valiente biography - the Centre For Pagan Studies website 1922 births 1999 deaths 20th-century English writers 20th-century English women writers People from the London Borough of Merton English occult writers English Wiccans Wiccan priestesses Founders of modern pagan movements Gardnerian Wiccans People from Maresfield Bletchley Park people Bletchley Park women Deaths from pancreatic cancer Deaths from cancer in England Writers from London Wiccan writers Modern pagan poets Foreign Office personnel of World War II