A study of women in Arthurian literature, covering writings from the medieval period, the Renaissance, the Victorian age and contemporary fiction. As well as examining the key Arthurian texts, it also investigates the less well-known works by women, such as Lady Charlotte Guest's "Mabinogion".

Acknowledgements - 'The Elf-Queene, with hir joly compaignye': Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Tale - 'And purz wyles of wymmen be wonen to sorze': Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - 'Am I nat an erthely woman?': Malory's Morte Darthur - 'Whether dreames delude, or true it were': Female Presence in Spenser's The Faerie Queene - 'I will, Lord, while I can': Lady Charlotte Guests' Mabinogion - 'Women Dressed in Many Hues': Tennyson's Stereoscopic Vision in the Idylls of Geraint and Enid - 'Thro' the Brilliant Eye': Julia Margaret Cameron's Illustrations to Tennyson's Idylls - 'An Arm Clothed in White Samite': Twentieth-Century Women Writers and the Arthurian Legends - Bibliography - Index

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