CHAPTER FOURTEEN
Parke Godwin and Gillian Bradshaw
“I’ve learned and unlearned all my life; it’s helped me to survive. There are no constants, nothing is immutable, only random circumstance from which our experience builds a coherent arc of life. And for that arc you have only to be truly done with one thing before moving to another. There’s an art in letting go.”419
— Beloved Exile by Parke Godwin
A New Type of Guinevere
Around the same time that The Mists of Avalon was published, two other authors were tackling the subject of Guinevere in very different ways. They gave readers a fresh perspective by having something positive to say about Guinevere. First came Parke Godwin’s early 1980s novels Firelord (1980) and Beloved Exile (1984), in which Guinevere is shown for the first time as
