Maid Marian

by Thomas Love Peacock

Overview

This delightful satire by Thomas Love Peacock retells the story of Robin Hood from the point of view of Maid Marian. The heroine of the tale is witty, courageous, and fiercely independent, and she must use all her skills to outwit the nefarious Sheriff of Nottingham. A classic of English literature, Maid Marian is a must-read for fans of historical fiction.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781717009524
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	04/15/2018
Pages:	112
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.23(d)

About the Author

Thomas Love Peacock (18 October 1785 - 23 January 1866) was an English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company. He was a close friend of Percy Bysshe Shelley and they influenced each other's work. Peacock wrote satirical novels, each with the same basic setting - characters at a table discussing and criticising the philosophical opinions of the day.

Peacock was born in Weymouth, Dorset, the son of Samuel Peacock and his wife Sarah Love, daughter of Thomas Love a retired master of a man-of-war in the Royal Navy. His father was a glass merchant in London, partner of a Mr Pellatt, presumed to be Apsley Pellatt (1763-1826). Peacock went with his mother to live with her family at Chertsey in 1791 and in 1792 went to a school run by Joseph Harris Wicks at Englefield Green where he stayed for six and a half years.

Peacock died at Lower Halliford, 23 January 1866, from injuries sustained in a fire in which he had attempted to save his library.

Table of Contents

The saga of Maid Marion opens as: The abbot stands at the altar in the abbey-chapel of Rubygill, at a little distance from the western boundary of Sherwood Forest, with all his plump, sleek, rosy friars, to solemnise the nuptials of the beautiful Matilda Fitzwater, daughter of the Baron of Arlingford, with the noble Robert Fitz-Ooth, Earl of Locksley and Huntingdon. When the ceremony is abruptly interrupted by armed soliders and her love is labelled a traitor by King Henry, Marion's journey through treacherous times begins.