{"id":736,"date":"2006-10-14T01:17:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-14T01:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=736"},"modified":"2006-10-14T01:17:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-14T01:17:00","slug":"jane-austen-in-woad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=736","title":{"rendered":"Jane Austen in Woad"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had a long and not terribly encouraging talk with my editor at Rowman & Littlefield<\/a> last week about a book project involving SF\/fantasy and Paganism. <\/p>\n

Then I walked to another building on campus, where students from the English Club were selling used books and baked goods. A copy of Marion Zimmer Bradley’s The Forest House<\/em> (1993), the prequel to Mists of Avalon<\/em>, more or less jumped out at me, and for fifty cents I bought it.<\/p>\n

Bradley said it was partly based on Bellini’s opera http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Norma_%28opera%29″>Norma<\/em><\/a>, but really, it’s Jane Austen in woad<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Imagine: “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single Druid in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.”<\/p>\n

Have I changed so much since I was rather caught up in Mists<\/em>? Should I blame the alleged ghost-writing by Diana Paxson<\/a>? (Warning: lugubrious music on link.)<\/p>\n

The book’s allegedly Pagan religion is awfully Protestant. People go around saying things like, “Goddess forgive my sin.”<\/p>\n

Tag: MAron Zimmer Bradley<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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