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Expert: Lindalee Stuckey
Date: 5/5/2008
Subject: Trying to locate the name of a book, a variation on the Robin Hood tales
Question
When I was in Jr.High I read a book that was a variation or re-telling of the Robin Hood tale, but from Marian's point of view. I remember that it was about how Marian became something akin to a nurse, or helping the lost and poor in the forest. I think it had either "Green" or "Mother" in the tittle but I can not be certain. It would have been published in the 1990's or earlier. Would anyone know the tittle of this book or perhaps tell me where I could find it? Thank you.
Answer
No exact matches but maybe these will help.
Clayton Emery
Tales of Robin Hood
Baen Books, 1988 (PB); 309 pages
iUniverse, Inc.; 2001; "Robin Hood and the Beasts of Sherwood"
ISBN: 0595206433
A highly original and lively interpretation of the Robin Hood legend. The author adds some likeable new new characters such as the outlaws' children and spirited female outlaw Bold Jane. Magic is real in this story, and used by both friends and foes.
For more exciting and original adventures of Robin Hood, visit the author's website at: Clayton Emery's Tales of Robin Hood
Gayle Feyrer
The Thief's Mistress
New York : Dell, 1996, 423 pages
ISBN: 0440217784
A historical romance, set in the middle of various plots and political intrigue during the reign of Richard I. Marian, the featured character, is no innocent maid, but a woman who knows well what she wants and how to get it -- be it revenge, self-defense, political manipulations, feelings for Sir Guy, or her feelings for the brazen outlaw, Robin Hood, who dared steal a kiss from her.
Worthy quote: "If any man thought to break her will to his, she would break his neck."
Kathryn Kramer
Lady Outlaw
New York: Zebra Books; Kensington Publishing, Corp., 1997; 348 pages
A romance novel of a spirited lady who, disguised as a boy, joins Robin Hood's band. She helps the forest outlaws battle their enemies, while she battles her feelings for one disinheirited knight who knows her secret and is determined to win her heart.
Jennifer Roberson
Lady of the Forest
Zebra Books/Kensington Publishing Corp.; 1992
A tale of Robin Hood told mostly through Marian's eyes. The author seems to have been inspired by the "Robin of Sherwood" TV series, with an almost identical character of Will Scarlet. It is also not difficult, from the author's descriptions, to visualize Jason Connery as her version of Robin Hood.
Catherine J. Todd
Marian
London: Robert Hale Limited, 1991; Thorpe, F. A. Publishers 1993
ISBN: 0708929788
From her convent room, the aging Marian tells her biography in first person; from her early years fostered at a convent, to her marriage to Sir Guy of Gisbourne, and how political intrigue and ethical conflicts drove her to Sherwood and to the outlaw band led by Robin Hood.
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