Any fans o'Gwen out there?!

[madrigalblue.livejournal.com]

Hi community, I just found you through some cool person that added me!:) Anyways, I've been interested in Arthurian legend since... well, since First Knight came out. Recently, I have been studying it seriously, and did my 30 page senior thesis on Guinevere's infertility in The Mists of Avalon and Guenevere: Queen of the Summer Country. I was an English major, and now I'm getting my MAE with a concentration in Arthurian Legend. Anyways, I think I am the lone fan of Gwen and her complicated life, but she is definitely my favorite. Any fans of Rosalind Miles books? Anyone read "The Dragon Queen" by Alice Borchardt? Queen of Camelot by Nancy McKenzie? Have read the first Miles book but the rest of these are all on my to be read list.

I'm also quite interested in early music and I hope to find the time to be involved in the SCA at some point.

On page 30 of my own novel about Guinevere, slowly but surely writing... :)

Comments

[madrigalblue.livejournal.com]

I think, like most stuff in legend, it just depends on what version you read. She is weak in Mists, but I tend to believe she was more a queen that could manage the kingdom when Arthur was out doing the hold-off-the-Saxons thing. At least we do know that many noble women of the time did manage household affairs.

I'm not a fan of that version of her, but I can see why she is that way, other than just the patriarchy. She really has some anxiety issues in the first 50 pages, also of note.