Romancing the Goddess: Three Middle English Romances about Women

by Marijane Osborn

English (translation)

311 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1998

About the author

Marijane Osborn is a retired professor at the University of California in Davis. Her course in life was set in childhood by her discovery of Robert Louis Stevenson's poem beginning 'I would like to rise and go'. Accordingly, she has lived and taught in many interesting places, but one of the most joyous was Edinburgh when she was awarded a fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities. While working on the project that led soon afterwards to a good academic job, she also read all the Scottish literature she could manage. Her children's fantasy novel The Woods of Leith is infused with that reading and by living near St. Bernard's Well and the Water of Leith,

Reviews

[Nicky]

I don't particularly care of the translations, but they're competent enough -- I'd just prefer to read them in the original. The commentary is good, though, making some interesting links.

[Leslie Mae]

I lost interest due to an overly repetitive argument that made massive digressions unrelated to her readings of Middle English Romances.