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Blogging the Magna Carta #18

by Phyllis Irene Radford We’re back to inheritance laws.  Escheat is the reversion of land to an overlord or the state from whom it has been held in Tenure by a Tenant dying without heirs.  Does that...

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Story Excerpt Sunday: From Guardian of the Trust by Irene Radford

Guardian of the Trust Merlin’s Descendant’s #2 by Irene Radford [Editor’s note: The Magna Carta, which was signed on this date in 1215, underlies this volume of Irene Radford’s Merlin’s Descendants...

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Kicking the Sheriff’s Butteth: the world of Robin Hood at age eleven

Some days I need a little silly. During my time as a sixth grade teacher at a private school, Howard Pyle’s Robin Hood was one of our texts. Its faux-medieval Victorian prose was actually a fairly...

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Robin Hood’s Merry Men: Little John

Robin Hood’s Merry Men: Little John As a companion to my blog series on the Magna Carta, I’m venturing forth with some character sketches of Robin Hood’s Merry Men. Let’s start with Little John, one of...

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Robin Hood’s Merry Men, Friar Tuck

ROBIN HOOD AND HIS MERRY MEN Friar Tuck In modern renditions of the Robin Hood stories, Friar Tuck is an essential element to the cannon. Usually he is portrayed as fat, jovial, a glutton, a prodigious...

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Robin Hood and His Merry Men: Will Scarlett

Robin Hood and His Merry Men: Will Scarlett Will Scarlett has been a part of the Robin Hood mythology from very near its beginning. He seems to me to be a side character in the myths who changes, as...

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Robin Hood and his Merry Men: the Sheriff of Nottingham

ROBIN HOOD AND HIS MERRY MEN: Sheriff of Nottingham What is any good story without a villain to drive the plot? The Robin Hood mythology provides the template for all great villain roles. In the...

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Robin Hood and His Merry Men: Much the Miller’s Son

ROBIN HOOD AND HIS MERRY MEN” Muche the Miller’s Son This is probably one of the hardest essays for me to write because until very recently I had never heard of Muche, or Midge, the Miller’s Son in...

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Robin Hood’s Merry Men: Alan a Dale

  ROBIN HOOD’S MERRY MEN: Alan a Dale Here we go again with the multiple spellings of character names. Alan is the current favorite, but Allen, Alen, Allin and others also appear. In my book, the...

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Robin Hood and His Merry Men: Maid Marian

ROBIN HOOD AND HIS MERRY MEN: Maid Marian Strong women who are ready to defend themselves and their loved ones with mannish weapons are often called Amazons. Or a virago. In modern literature we call...

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Robin Hood’s Merry Men: Robin Hood

Robin Hood’s Merry Men: Robin Hood To wind up this romp through Sherwood Forest, I’m giving you a sketch of Robin Hood himself, the heart and soul of legend, ballads, poetry, folklore, and modern...

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Cover Reveal

Founding member of BVC, Phyllis Irene Radford, writes for other publishers under a variety of pen names. Here’s the cover for her next epic from DAW Books, coming January 22, 2022, a different take on...

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