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Anne Eliot Crompton

Anne Eliot Crompton grew up in the 1940s when women’s roles in myth were less acknowledged than today. Part of her life’s work has been to shine light on their immense contribution to the human story. She lives in a college town in Vermont.
Arthurian Legends

Arthurian Legends — (1995-1999) Young adult. Publisher: When I was yet a very young woman I threw my heart away. Ever since then I have lived heartless, or almost heartless, the way Humans think all Fey live. Among the towering trees of magical Avalon, where humans dare not tread, lives Niviene, daughter of the Lady of the Lake. Her people, the Fey, are folk of the wood and avoid the violence and greed of man. But the strife of King Arthur’s realm threatens even the peace of Avalon. And while Merlin the mage has been training Niviene as his apprentice, he now needs her help to thwart the chaos devouring Camelot. Niviene’s special talents must help save a kingdom and discover the treachery of men and the beauty of love…

Anne Eliot Crompton Arthurian Legends 1. Merlin's Harp 2. Gawain and Lady Green 3. Percival's AngelAnne Eliot Crompton Arthurian Legends 1. Merlin's Harp 2. Gawain and Lady Green 3. Percival's AngelAnne Eliot Crompton Arthurian Legends 1. Merlin's Harp 2. Gawain and Lady Green 3. Percival's Angel


Merlin’s Harp: For fans of lush prose and coffee

Merlin's Harp by Anne Eliot Crompton

Reading Merlin's Harp, I realized something about novels that portray the interaction between the human world and Faerie. They usually don't tell the stories of fae folk in their own homeland. There are exceptions, of course, but authors tend to focus on faeries stuck in the human world, or humans encountering Faerie. I think I may know why that is. When writing about faeries living in Faerie, it's all too easy to have nothing happen.

Anne Eliot Crompton uses beautiful, if occasionally stilted, language to draw us into her take on Arthurian legend:
When I was yet a young woman I threw my heart away.

I fashioned a wee coracle of leaf and willow twig and reed, a coracle that sat in the hollow of my two palms. In this I placed my wounded, wretched heart, and I set it adrift on the rain-misted wavelets of the Fey river, and I... Read More

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