![]() ![]() ![]() Like her, I too was first drawn to Arthurian legend by the figure of Gawain (as he is called in English tradition) in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and we have both retained our fondness for this complex figure despite the calumnies of Malory and Tennyson. The first follows the early career of Arthur's nephew Gwalchmai, and he remains a central figure in the next two, though others increasingly claim our attention as her story moves towards its tragic conclusion. It was a warm summer day when I drove down to meet her, and after a refreshing lunch at a picturesque pub beside the River Cam, with swans and student-filled punts drifting slowly by, I made my way to Bottisham, the small village near Cambridge where she was living back then.īradshaw has written a trilogy of Arthurian novels, starting with Hawk of May (1980), and followed by Kingdom of Summer (1981) and In Winter's Shadow (1982). Whereas Susan Cooper moved from England to the United States, Gillian Bradshaw journeyed in the other direction. ![]()
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