{"id":10707,"date":"2019-07-10T09:30:08","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T15:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=10707"},"modified":"2019-07-10T09:37:07","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T15:37:07","slug":"all-the-books-set-in-glastonbury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=10707","title":{"rendered":"All the Books Set in Glastonbury"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ruins of Glastonbury Abbey, destroyed at the orders of Henry VIII (Wikimedia Commons).<\/p><\/div>\n

\"\" From\u00a0 Vicki Steward’s\u00a0 blog Normal For Glastonbury: Life in the Oddest Town in England<\/em>, a list of all the novels set in Glastonbury.<\/a><\/p>\n

There some Phil Rickman titles there that I had missed, possibly because they were categorized as YA<\/a> and published under a different name.<\/p>\n

Marion Zimmer Bradley, of course, Faye Weldon, and lots of others. And the heavyweight, John Cowper Powys’ A Glastonbury Romance<\/em><\/a>. Unlike Vicki Steward, I\u00a0 have <\/em>read it. It is odd and complex, but so was he<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From\u00a0 Vicki Steward’s\u00a0 blog Normal For Glastonbury: Life in the Oddest Town in England, a list of all the novels set in Glastonbury. There some Phil Rickman titles there that I had missed, possibly because they were categorized as YA and published under a different name. Marion Zimmer Bradley, of course, Faye Weldon, and lots […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,37,12],"class_list":["post-10707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-england","tag-folklore","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-2MH","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13693,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=13693","url_meta":{"origin":10707,"position":0},"title":"20 Years of British Paganism: Free Zoom Lecture with Glastonbury-based Writer Liz Williams","author":"Chas S. 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