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Marion Zimmer Bradley | | Birth Date: |
June 3, 1930 | | Place of Birth: |
Albany, New York, United States | | Nationality: |
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writer, editor |
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 Biography of Marion Zimmer Bradley
3820 words, approx. 12.7 pages
 At the time of her death in 1999, Marion Zimmer Bradley was among the most popular writers of her generation. Author of one of the best-loved series in science fiction and fantasy, her "Darkover" novels have not only inspired their own fan magazines, kno... summary from source:
 Biography of Marion Zimmer Bradley
2219 words, approx. 7.4 pages
Marion Zimmer Bradley is a prolific writer of science fiction and fantasy. Born in Albany, New York, she attended New York State College for Teachers from 1946 to 1948 and Hardin-Simmons College, where she took a B.A. in 1964. She has also done graduate... summary from source:
 Biography of Marion Zimmer Bradley
1630 words, approx. 5.4 pages
Popular fantasy writer Marion Zimmer Bradley (born 1930) is considered a pioneer in the field of woman-based science fiction, creating strong, independent female protagonists in her many popular novels and short stories. Beginning her career in the 1950s...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 The Mists of Avalon Information
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 The Mists of Avalon is a 1983 novel by Marion Zimmer Bradley, in which she relates the Arthurian legends from the perspective of the female...
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 The Washington Post Adrift In 'The Mists Of Avalon'
07/14/2001: 907 words, approx. 3 pages When a show is billed as old history newly seen through "the eyes of the women," you can expect one of two things: (A) This will be a fascinating and deserved reclamation of the past; or (B) There won't be too many gory battle... summary from source:
The Washington Post In a Mist
06/22/2003: 1,064 words, approx. 4 pages 1929 By Frederick Turner Counterpoint. 390 pp. $25 Jazz great Bix Beiderbecke was the Kurt Cobain of the 1920s: a tortured musical genius who in a short and sadly besotted bohemian life seemed to encapsulate something essential about his times. If...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Maureen Quilligan
619 words, approx. 2 pages
Of the various great matters of Western literature—the story of Troy, the legend of Charlemagne, the tales of Araby—none has more profoundly captured the imagination of English civilization than the saga of its own imperial dream, the romance of King Arthur and the Round Table…. The story of Arthur traditionally begins as the story of male lust….
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Critical Essay by Beverly Deweese
282 words, approx. 1 pages
Most readers know the story of King Arthur; however, Marion Zimmer Bradley, in Mists of Avalon has written an especially vivid, unorthodox version of this romantic tale. Bradley's narrator is Morgaine, a Druid priestess, and her England is populated by those who worship the Lady (the Earth Mother) and those few who are turning to the harsher, more intolerant Christianity—a religion which equates chastity with good and sex with evil. The story centers on the struggle between the two religions a... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Lawrence M. Caylor
263 words, approx. 1 pages
With The Mists of Avalon the reader enjoys a new perspective: that of the women [in the Arthurian legends]…. Furthermore, the development of the novel depends not on a contest between good and evil, Christianity and paganism, nor on the characters themselves so much as it does on the tension that frowns as a new culture overshadows and obliterates an older one. Thus Marion Zimmer Bradley has written of a present urgency in a mythical setting, and written magnificently at that! (p. 2) Perhaps the most... Featured Essays
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 Essay Grade: 92%Contrasting Views of Arthurian Legends
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Provides a comparison between The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley and Knight Life by Peter David. Focuses on comparisons of characters' relationships. Describes how though the settings and plots may be similar, character development differs.
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