Founders: Gerald Gardner (1884-1964), a British civil servant. Americans Raymond and Rosemary Buckland traveled to England in the mid-1960s to be initiated into Gardner’s Goddess religion and brought its practices back to the United States. Modern spokespersons for Wicca today include Margot Adler, Mary Nesnick, Selena Fox, Gavin and Yvonne Frost, Sybil Leek, Miriam Simos (Starhawk), and Doreen Valiente.
Doreen died in 1999. I knew her quite well and was at her funeral. A very kind and lovely lady indeed.