Maid Marian - Literature

Literature

There have been several books based on the fictional character:

  • Maid Marian — 1822 novel by Thomas Love Peacock
  • Maid Marian — 2004 novel by Elsa Watson
  • Lady of the Forest; novel by Jennifer Roberson
  • Lady of Sherwood; novel by Jennifer Roberson
  • The Forestwife (and its sequels, although she's only the main character in the first); young adult novel by Theresa Tomlinson.
  • The Outlaws of Sherwood, novel by Robin McKinley (depicts Marian as a crack-shot archer)
  • Maid Marian appears in a chapter of T.H. White's The Sword in the Stone, the first book in The Once and Future King. Wart (the young King Arthur) and his step brother Kay meet her and Robin when they go into the forest for an adventure and set out with the outlaws to rescue people Morgan le Fey kidnapped. When they meet her, it is quickly made apparent that Marian is strong and capable in battle and the narrator mentions that she could walk or even wiggle on her stomach like a snake faster than the boys could follow.
  • The "Robin & Marian Mysteries" by Clayton Emery, appearing in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and elsewhere, feature the outlaw husband-wife team as amateur detectives solving bizarre murders.
  • Hawksmaid: The untold story of Robin Hood and Maid Marian by Kathryn Lastry
  • Scarlet by A.C. Gaughen (2012)

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