CHAPTER THIRTEEN
Marion Zimmer Bradley—The Mists of Avalon
“‘If all goes as I plan, you’ll wed the High King himself.’
Guinevere shrinks away, saying, ‘I’d be afraid to be High Queen.’
‘You’re afraid of everything, anyway…that’s why you need a man to take care of you…. You must trust me to know what’s best for you. That’s what I am here for, to look after you and make a good marriage with a trusty man for my pretty featherhead.’”389
— The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Women in the Fore
Marion Zimmer Bradley was the first author to attempt a major feminist reinvention of Arthurian legend in her groundbreaking 1983 novel, The Mists of Avalon. It was different from any work that came before it in its clear intent to tell the stories of the women in King Arthur’s court. The
