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Guinevere (/ ˈ ɡ w ɪ n ɪ v ɪər / ⓘ GWIN-iv-eer; Welsh: Gwenhwyfar pronunciation ⓘ; Breton: Gwenivar, Cornish: Gwynnever), also often written in Modern English as Guenevere or Guenever, [1] was, according to Arthurian legend, an early-medieval queen of Great Britain and the wife of King Arthur. First mentioned in literature in the ...
This is a list of pen names used by notable authors of written work. A pen name or nom de plume is a pseudonym adopted by an author.A pen name may be used to make the author' name more distinctive, to disguise the author's gender, to distance the author from their other works, to protect the author from retribution for their writings, to combine more than one author into a single author, or ...
It did not become a common English given name until the 19th century. Gwendoline was in use in England by the 1860s (an early example being Lady Gwendoline Anson, born c. 1837, a daughter of the 1st Earl of Lichfield ), [ 3 ] and Gwendolen appeared in Daniel Deronda , written by George Eliot and published in serialized form 1874–6.
"The Wife of Bath's Tale" (Middle English: The Tale of the Wyf of Bathe) is among the best-known of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. It provides insight into the role of women in the Late Middle Ages and was probably of interest to Chaucer, himself, for the character is one of his most developed ones, with her Prologue twice as long as her ...
Perceval, the Story of the Grail, c. 1181 Percival's wife, niece to Gornemant: Bors the Elder (French: Bohort) Lancelot-Grail, early 13th century; The Once and Future King: Brother to King Ban, and an ally of Arthur's Bors the Younger† Son of Bors the Elder, father of Elyan the White: Brangaine: Brangaene, Brangwane, Brangien Tristan, 12th ...
St. Loo is a resort town on the south English coast, commonly referred to as the English Riviera and is a setting for several Agatha Christie stories. St. Mary Mead, England Agatha Christie: Miss Marple series An earlier mention of St. Mary Mead exists in the Poirot novel The Mystery of the Blue Train.
A common central theme of such literature and folktales is the often forceful "taming" of shrewish wives by their husbands. [2] Arising in folklore, in which community story-telling can have functions of moral censorship or suasion, it has served to affirm traditional values and moral authority regarding polarised gender roles, and to address social unease about female behavior in marriage.
Beowulf predominantly uses the West Saxon dialect of Old English, like other Old English poems copied at the time. However, it also uses many other linguistic forms; this leads some scholars to believe that it has endured a long and complicated transmission through all the main dialect areas.