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Mary, Lady Stewart (born Mary Florence Elinor Rainbow, 17 September 1916 – 9 May 2014) was an English writer of {{historical fantasy}}, {{romance}}, and suspense novels. She is sometimes credited with turning romance-suspense into a full sub-genre in the late fifties and early sixties, but she is best known for her wildly successful and influential ''[[Literature/TheMerlinTrilogy Merlin Trilogy]]'', starting with 1970's ''The Crystal Cave'', which was one of the first major attempts to retell Myth/ArthurianLegend from the point of view of a character other than Myth/KingArthur (Myth/{{Merlin}}, obviously), and also one of the first to retell the Arthurian legend [[{{Demythification}} "as it might have really happened"]], by emphasizing the historical setting and downplaying the magical elements.
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Mary, Lady Stewart (born Mary Florence Elinor Rainbow, 17 September 1916 – 9 May 2014) was an English writer of {{historical fantasy}}, {{romance}}, and suspense novels. She is sometimes credited with turning romance-suspense into a full sub-genre SubGenre in the late fifties and early sixties, but she is best known for her wildly successful and influential ''[[Literature/TheMerlinTrilogy Merlin Trilogy]]'', starting with 1970's ''The Crystal Cave'', which was one of the first major attempts to retell Myth/ArthurianLegend from the point of view of a character other than Myth/KingArthur (Myth/{{Merlin}}, obviously), and also one of the first to retell the Arthurian legend [[{{Demythification}} "as it might have really happened"]], by emphasizing the historical setting and downplaying the magical elements.
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Mary, Lady Stewart (born Mary Florence Elinor Rainbow, 17 September 1916 – 9 May 2014) was an English writer of {{historical fantasy}}, {{romance}}, and suspense novels. She is sometimes credited with turning romance-suspense into a full sub-genre in the late fifties and early sixties, but she is best known for her wildly successful and influential ''[[Literature/TheMerlinTrilogy Merlin Trilogy]]'', starting with 1970's ''The Crystal Cave'', which was one of the first major attempts to retell the story of Myth/KingArthur from the point of view of another character (Merlin, obviously), and also one of the first to retell the Arthurian legend [[{{Demythification}} "as it might have really happened"]], by emphasizing the historical setting and downplaying the magical elements.
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Mary, Lady Stewart (born Mary Florence Elinor Rainbow, 17 September 1916 – 9 May 2014) was an English writer of {{historical fantasy}}, {{romance}}, and suspense novels. She is sometimes credited with turning romance-suspense into a full sub-genre in the late fifties and early sixties, but she is best known for her wildly successful and influential ''[[Literature/TheMerlinTrilogy Merlin Trilogy]]'', starting with 1970's ''The Crystal Cave'', which was one of the first major attempts to retell the story of Myth/KingArthur Myth/ArthurianLegend from the point of view of another a character (Merlin, other than Myth/KingArthur (Myth/{{Merlin}}, obviously), and also one of the first to retell the Arthurian legend [[{{Demythification}} "as it might have really happened"]], by emphasizing the historical setting and downplaying the magical elements.
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Mary, Lady Stewart (born Mary Florence Elinor Rainbow, 17 September 1916 – 9 May 2014) was an English writer of {{historical fantasy}}, {{romance}}, and suspense novels. She is sometimes credited with turning romance-suspense into a full sub-genre in the late fifties and early sixties, but she is best known for her wildly successful and influential ''[[Literature/TheMerlinTrilogy Merlin Trilogy]]'', starting with 1970's ''The Crystal Cave'', which was one of the first major attempts to retell the story of KingArthur from the point of view of another character (Merlin, obviously), and also one of the first to retell the Arthurian legend [[{{Demythification}} "as it might have really happened"]], by emphasizing the historical setting and downplaying the magical elements.
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Mary, Lady Stewart (born Mary Florence Elinor Rainbow, 17 September 1916 – 9 May 2014) was an English writer of {{historical fantasy}}, {{romance}}, and suspense novels. She is sometimes credited with turning romance-suspense into a full sub-genre in the late fifties and early sixties, but she is best known for her wildly successful and influential ''[[Literature/TheMerlinTrilogy Merlin Trilogy]]'', starting with 1970's ''The Crystal Cave'', which was one of the first major attempts to retell the story of KingArthur Myth/KingArthur from the point of view of another character (Merlin, obviously), and also one of the first to retell the Arthurian legend [[{{Demythification}} "as it might have really happened"]], by emphasizing the historical setting and downplaying the magical elements.
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Mary, Lady Stewart (born Mary Florence Elinor Rainbow, 17 September 1916 – 9 May 2014) was an English writer of {{historical fantasy}}, {{romance}}, and suspense novels. She is sometimes credited with turning romance-suspense into a full sub-genre in the late fifties and early sixties, but she is best known for her wildly successful and influential ''[[Literature/TheMerlinTrilogy Merlin Trilogy]]'', starting with 1970's ''The Crystal Cave'', which was one of the first major attempts to retell the story of KingArthur from the point of view of another character (Merlin, obviously), and also one of the first to retell the Arthurian legend [[{{Demythtification}} "as it might have really happened"]], by emphasizing the historical setting and downplaying the magical elements.
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Mary, Lady Stewart (born Mary Florence Elinor Rainbow, 17 September 1916 – 9 May 2014) was an English writer of {{historical fantasy}}, {{romance}}, and suspense novels. She is sometimes credited with turning romance-suspense into a full sub-genre in the late fifties and early sixties, but she is best known for her wildly successful and influential ''[[Literature/TheMerlinTrilogy Merlin Trilogy]]'', starting with 1970's ''The Crystal Cave'', which was one of the first major attempts to retell the story of KingArthur from the point of view of another character (Merlin, obviously), and also one of the first to retell the Arthurian legend [[{{Demythtification}} [[{{Demythification}} "as it might have really happened"]], by emphasizing the historical setting and downplaying the magical elements.
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Mary Stewart (1916--2014) was an English writer of {{historical fantasy}}, {{romance}}, and suspense novels. She is sometimes credited with turning romance-suspense into a full sub-genre in the late fifties and early sixties, but she is best known for her wildly successful and influential ''[[Literature/TheMerlinTrilogy Merlin Trilogy]]'', starting with 1970's ''The Crystal Cave'', which was one of the first major attempts to retell the story of KingArthur from the point of view of another character (Merlin, obviously), and also one of the first to retell the Arthurian legend [[{{Demythtification}} "as it might have really happened"]], by emphasizing the historical setting and downplaying the magical elements.
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Her novel ''The Moon-Spinners'' was turned into a Disney movie in 1964.
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Her novel ''The Moon-Spinners'' was turned into a Disney movie in 1964.
1964 while her other novel ''The Little Broomstick'' would later become an anime movie called ''Anime/MaryAndTheWitchsFlower'' in 2017.
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Mary Stewart (1916--2014) was an English writer of {{historical fantasy}}, {{romance}}, and suspense novels. She is sometimes credited with turning romance-suspense into a full sub-genre in the late fifties and early sixties, but she is best known for her wildly successful and influential ''Literature/TheMerlinTrilogy'', ''[[Literature/TheMerlinTrilogy Merlin Trilogy]]'', starting with 1970's ''The Crystal Cave'', which was one of the first major attempts to retell the story of KingArthur from the point of view of another character (Merlin, obviously), and also one of the first to retell the Arthurian legend [[{{Demythtification}} "as it might have really happened"]], by emphasizing the historical setting and downplaying the magical elements.
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Mary Stewart (1916--2014) was an English writer of {{historical fantasy}}, {{romance}}, and {{suspense}} suspense novels. She is sometimes credited with turning romance-suspense into a full sub-genre in the late fifties and early sixties, but she is best known for her wildly successful and influential ''Literature/TheMerlinTrilogy'', starting with 1970's ''The Crystal Cave'', which was one of the first major attempts to retell the story of KingArthur from the point of view of another character (Merlin, obviously), and also one of the first to retell the Arthurian legend [[{{Demythtification}} "as it might have really happened"]], by emphasizing the historical setting and downplaying the magical elements.
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Mary Stewart (1916--2014) was an English writer of historical fantasy, romance, {{historical fantasy}}, {{romance}}, and suspense {{suspense}} novels. She is sometimes credited with turning romance-suspense into a full sub-genre in the late fifties and early sixties, but she is best known for her wildly successful and influential ''Literature/TheMerlinTrilogy'', starting with 1970's ''The Crystal Cave'', which was one of the first major attempts to retell the story of KingArthur from the point of view of another character (Merlin, obviously), and also one of the first to retell the Arthurian legend in the style of HistoricalFiction by [[{{Demythtification}} downplaying the magical elements]], "as it might have really happened".
happened"]], by emphasizing the historical setting and downplaying the magical elements.
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Mary Stewart (1916--2014) was an English writer of historical fantasy, romance, and suspense novels. She is sometimes credited with turning romance-suspense into a full sub-genre in the late fifties and early sixties, but she is best known for her wildly successful and influential ''Literature/TheMerlinTrilogy'', starting with 1970's ''The Crystal Cave'', which was one of the first major attempts to retell the story of KingArthur from the point of view of another character (Merlin, obviously), and also one of the first to retell the legend in the style of HistoricalFiction while by [[{{Demythtification}} downplaying the magical elements.]]
elements]], "as it might have really happened".
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Mary Stewart (1916--2014) was an English writer of historical fantasy, romance, and suspense novels. She is sometimes credited with turning romance-suspense into a full sub-genre in the late fifties and early sixties, but she is best known for her wildly successful and influential ''Literature/TheMerlinTrilogy'', starting with 1970's ''The Crystal Cave'', which was one of the first major attempts to retell the story of KingArthur from the point of view of another character (Merlin, obviously).
obviously), and also one of the first to retell the legend in the style of HistoricalFiction while [[{{Demythtification}} downplaying the magical elements.]]
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Mary Stewart (1916--) is (1916--2014) was an English writer of historical fantasy, romance, and suspense novels. She is sometimes credited with turning romance-suspense into a full sub-genre in the late fifties and early sixties, but she is best known for her wildly successful and influential ''Literature/TheMerlinTrilogy'', starting with 1970's ''The Crystal Cave'', which was one of the first major attempts to retell the story of KingArthur from the point of view of another character (Merlin, obviously).
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** ''The Wicked Day'' (see TrilogyCreep)
** ''The Prince and the Pilgrim''
** ''The Prince and the Pilgrim''
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(separate, but in the same continuity)
** ''The Prince and thePilgrim''
Pilgrim'' (ditto)
** ''The Prince and the
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Mary Stewart is an English writer of historical fantasy, romance, and suspense novels. She is sometimes credited with turning romance-suspense into a full sub-genre in the late fifties and early sixties, but she is best known for her wildly successful and influential ''Literature/TheMerlinTrilogy'', starting with 1970's ''The Crystal Cave'', which was one of the first major attempts to retell the story of KingArthur from the point of view of another character (Merlin, obviously).
Her novel ''The Moon-Spinners'' was turned into a Disney movie in 1964.
!! Works with a page on this wiki:
* ''Literature/TheMerlinTrilogy'':
** ''The Crystal Cave''
** ''The Hollow Hills''
** ''The Last Enchantment''
** ''The Wicked Day'' (see TrilogyCreep)
** ''The Prince and the Pilgrim''
!! Other works include:
* ''Airs Above the Ground''
* ''The Ivy Tree''
* ''Madam, Will You Talk?''
* ''The Moon-Spinners''
* ''Nine Coaches Waiting''
* ''This Rough Magic''
* ''Touch Not the Cat''
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!! Tropes in her other works:
* CarFu: In ''Madam, Will You Talk?'', the heroine uses a car for self-defense very effectively. Threatening to kill a woman while she's driving along a mountain road at high speed is ''not'' particularly well-thought-out. By the time she pulls to a halt, her attacker is a whimpering wreck, too nerve-shattered to put up a fight even though he's no longer in danger.
* CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon: Near the end of ''This Rough Magic'', a teenage girl is raging about the escape of the villain, who'd almost succeeded in murdering her brother. She shouts that she wishes she could eat the man's heart in the marketplace, and someone comments that although the girl may never have read Shakespeare, her threat is nearly word for word from one of the plays. Then the young fellow who plans to marry her reveals [[spoiler:that he arranged for the villain's escape vehicle to blow up, and he tells her, "You wanted to eat his heart.... I have cooked it for you."]]
* EmergencyImpersonation: In ''The Ivy Tree'', a young woman just come to town is recruited to impersonate the long-missing heir of a local estate, so as to convince the missing woman's grandfather to change his will. [[spoiler:Subverted in that it's eventually revealed she ''is'' the heir, going along with the scheme for her own reasons. The deception is particularly startling because the whole book is [[TheAllConcealingI in her first-person perspective]].]]
* INeverGotAnyLetters: In ''The Ivy Tree'', the heroine quarrels with her married lover and runs away, and then sends him a letter telling him she'll go anywhere with him. When she doesn't receive a letter back she assumes he's done with her; only years later is it discovered that another character had innocently sent the letter astray. In retrospect, the heroine thinks this might have been for the best.
* LampshadeHanging: "I must begin with a coincidence which I would not dare to recount if this were a work of fiction." Thus the first line of Mary Stewart's ''Stormy Petrel.'' She then argues, reasonably enough, that coincidences do happen in real life, and it's only in art that we object to them.
* LiteraryAllusionTitle: ''This Rough Magic'' gets its title from Shakespeare's ''Theatre/TheTempest''.
* MaybeEverAfter: ''The Stormy Petrel'' ends with a promise that [[spoiler: Rose and Neil]] will see each other "next term," suggesting the potential for a romantic relationship. In this case, ending the novel with just the beginning of a potential romance is quite realistic, as they've only known each other for a few days.
* PatronSaint: In ''This Rough Magic'', St. Spiridon, the patron saint of Corfu (where the story takes place), is invoked by several characters and features in Sir Julian's theory of the origins of the story of ''Theatre/TheTempest''.
* RushedInvertedReading: In ''Madam, Will You Talk?'', the main character and her friend had been speculating that a certain man was probably not interested in women. Then they see that his reaction to a smile from a FemmeFatale includes, when he tries to go back to the book he'd been reading, holding it upside down.
Her novel ''The Moon-Spinners'' was turned into a Disney movie in 1964.
!! Works with a page on this wiki:
* ''Literature/TheMerlinTrilogy'':
** ''The Crystal Cave''
** ''The Hollow Hills''
** ''The Last Enchantment''
** ''The Wicked Day'' (see TrilogyCreep)
** ''The Prince and the Pilgrim''
!! Other works include:
* ''Airs Above the Ground''
* ''The Ivy Tree''
* ''Madam, Will You Talk?''
* ''The Moon-Spinners''
* ''Nine Coaches Waiting''
* ''This Rough Magic''
* ''Touch Not the Cat''
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!! Tropes in her other works:
* CarFu: In ''Madam, Will You Talk?'', the heroine uses a car for self-defense very effectively. Threatening to kill a woman while she's driving along a mountain road at high speed is ''not'' particularly well-thought-out. By the time she pulls to a halt, her attacker is a whimpering wreck, too nerve-shattered to put up a fight even though he's no longer in danger.
* CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon: Near the end of ''This Rough Magic'', a teenage girl is raging about the escape of the villain, who'd almost succeeded in murdering her brother. She shouts that she wishes she could eat the man's heart in the marketplace, and someone comments that although the girl may never have read Shakespeare, her threat is nearly word for word from one of the plays. Then the young fellow who plans to marry her reveals [[spoiler:that he arranged for the villain's escape vehicle to blow up, and he tells her, "You wanted to eat his heart.... I have cooked it for you."]]
* EmergencyImpersonation: In ''The Ivy Tree'', a young woman just come to town is recruited to impersonate the long-missing heir of a local estate, so as to convince the missing woman's grandfather to change his will. [[spoiler:Subverted in that it's eventually revealed she ''is'' the heir, going along with the scheme for her own reasons. The deception is particularly startling because the whole book is [[TheAllConcealingI in her first-person perspective]].]]
* INeverGotAnyLetters: In ''The Ivy Tree'', the heroine quarrels with her married lover and runs away, and then sends him a letter telling him she'll go anywhere with him. When she doesn't receive a letter back she assumes he's done with her; only years later is it discovered that another character had innocently sent the letter astray. In retrospect, the heroine thinks this might have been for the best.
* LampshadeHanging: "I must begin with a coincidence which I would not dare to recount if this were a work of fiction." Thus the first line of Mary Stewart's ''Stormy Petrel.'' She then argues, reasonably enough, that coincidences do happen in real life, and it's only in art that we object to them.
* LiteraryAllusionTitle: ''This Rough Magic'' gets its title from Shakespeare's ''Theatre/TheTempest''.
* MaybeEverAfter: ''The Stormy Petrel'' ends with a promise that [[spoiler: Rose and Neil]] will see each other "next term," suggesting the potential for a romantic relationship. In this case, ending the novel with just the beginning of a potential romance is quite realistic, as they've only known each other for a few days.
* PatronSaint: In ''This Rough Magic'', St. Spiridon, the patron saint of Corfu (where the story takes place), is invoked by several characters and features in Sir Julian's theory of the origins of the story of ''Theatre/TheTempest''.
* RushedInvertedReading: In ''Madam, Will You Talk?'', the main character and her friend had been speculating that a certain man was probably not interested in women. Then they see that his reaction to a smile from a FemmeFatale includes, when he tries to go back to the book he'd been reading, holding it upside down.
