Adams, Laura. Review of Rose Daughter.

Horn Book 73.4 (1997): 574-75. Mixed review of Rose Daughter, mostly positive, about character development and plotting.

De Lint, Charles. Review of Rose Daughter.

Fantasy and Science Fiction 94.4 (1998): 36-7. Positive review that compares Rose Daughter and Beauty. Also discusses how the book came to be written.

"McKinley, (Jennifer Carolyn) Robin." In Something about the Author, vol. 89. Detroit: Gale, 1997. One of the more up-to-date biographies available.

McKinley, Robin. "Newbery Medal Acceptance." Horn Book 61.4 (1985): 395-405.

Good discussion of McKinley's interest in creating strong female heroines.

Sanders, Lynn Moss. "'Girls Who Do Things': The Protagonists of Robin McKinley's Fantasy Fiction." ALAN Review 24.1 (1996): 38-42. A good discussion of traits shared by McKinley's heroines.