Mary Stewart's writing career divides into two distinct parts. In her first period, according to Kay Mussell in the St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, Stewart "wrote a remarkable series of ...
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In the following review, the critic praises My Brother Michael as an improbable but well-written and fully absorbing mystery.
[My Brother Michael is a] fast moving suspense novel set against the ba...
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In the following essay, Jurich explains Stewart's use of the ancient figure Mithras, from the Zoroastrian religion, in the creation of her Merlin.
The figure of Merlin is a fascinating palim...
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In the following review, the critic assesses Rose Cottage as familiar Stewart material—"mild doings in enchanting surroundings."
For the frazzled Anglophile, the countryside-en...
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In the following review, Byerly offers a favorable appraisal of This Rough Magic, noting in particular Stewart's wide range of subject matter synthesized into a single plot.
[In This Rough M...
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In the following review, Grady offers a favorable assessment of Stewart's complex and colorful plot and writing in The Gabriel Hounds.
Christabel Mansel, a spirited and pretty English girl o...
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In the following review, Cadogan questions several inconsistencies in the plot of A Walk in Wolf Wood but praises the novel overall for its subtlety and cleverness.
In A Walk in Wolf Wood Mary Stew...
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In the following essay, Herman argues that Stewart's portrayal of women in her Merlin trilogy is the most sympathetic and groundbreaking in Arthurian legend because of her rejection of feminine...
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In the following essay, Watson examines the ways in which Merlin symbolizes the "word of power" in that he is a visionary who is privy to the knowledge and wisdom of the gods.
The Mer...
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In the following review, the critic praises Stewart's ability to evocatively portray the setting of her novel The Stormy Petrel.
By the English author of Thornyhold (1988), etc., more atmosp...
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In the following essay, Dean argues that a successful literary representation of the character Merlin requires that modern readers be able and willing to suspend their skepticism and accept Merlin as ...
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Four former executives at drug company Serono Laboratories were acquitted Thursday of paying and offering to pay kickbacks to doctors in exchange for writing prescriptions for an AIDS drug with dec...
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Mary Stewart
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Former Serono executives acquitted of offering doctors kickbacks
