![]() Bradley’s reference to the island where Arthur rests made me feel like an insider, while the marketing copy suggested something radically different than anything I’d encountered before: Arthurian legend, from the female perspective. I’d even muddled through La Morte d’Arthur. White’s The Once and Future King, which had led me to Howard Pyle’s take on Arthurian legend, as well as John Steinbeck’s. ![]() She looks determined, but serene, fully self-sufficient.Īnd that evocative title! The Mists of Avalon. She is sitting on a beautiful white horse and grasping a sword by its blade. ![]() ![]() Instead, she is wearing a voluminous robe, her long, dark hair bound by a simple coronet. She’s not naked, nor is she wearing an armored bikini or an approximation of medieval dress that allows for ample cleavage. The painting on the cover stopped me in my tracks, right there in the science fiction/fantasy section of Waldenbooks at Chapel Hill Mall in Akron, Ohio. This time, we asked : What book was your feminist awakening? ![]() Novel Gazing is Electric Literature’s personal essay series about the way reading shapes our lives. Sign up for our newsletter to get submission announcements and stay on top of our best work. ![]()
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