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Jessie L. Weston (1850–1928)

Autor de From Ritual to Romance

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Obras de Jessie L. Weston

From Ritual to Romance (1920) 625 copias
The Quest of the Holy Grail (1964) 46 copias
The Romance of Morien (1907) 10 copias
Sir Gawain and the Lady of Lys (Xist Classics) (1907) — Traductor — 8 copias

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Nombre legal
Weston, Jessie Laidlay
Fecha de nacimiento
1850-12-29
Fecha de fallecimiento
1928-09-29
Género
female
Nacionalidad
UK
Lugar de nacimiento
Clapham, Surrey, England, UK
Lugares de residencia
Bournemouth, Dorset, England, UK
Hildesheim, Germany
Paris, France
Educación
Crystal Palace School of Art
Ocupaciones
scholar
Arthurian scholar
Medieval Literature Scholar
translator
poet
folklorist
Biografía breve
Jessie Laidlay Weston was the daughter of William Weston, a tea merchant, and his second wife Sarah Burton. She was named after her father's first wife, Jessica Laidlay. She studied in Hildesheim, Germany, and in Paris with French writer Gaston Paris, and at the Crystal Palace School of Art. She and two of her siblings set up house together in Bournemouth, where Jessie began her writing career. One of her first published works was a lengthy narrative poem called "The Rose-Tree of Hildesheim" (1896). Her best-known book was From Ritual to Romance (1920), an analysis of the roots of the Holy Grail legend. Her translations of numerous medieval romances are still used today.

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QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL

PREFACE

IN the following pages I have endeavoured to
give, as clearly and concisely as possible, a
description of the literature composing the
Grail cycle, an analysis of its content, and
a survey of the leading theories to which this
perplexing body of romance has given rise.

Lacking as we do MS. evidence for the
initial stages in the development of the story,
ignorant of the precise time and place of its
birth as a theme for popular romance, it is
impossible to present a theory that shall
have behind it the weight and authority of
established fact. There will always be too
many missing links, however skilfully the
chain be woven.

But the theory set forth
in these pages is that which, after twenty years
spent in elose and constant study of the
subject, I believe to be the only one capable
of meeting all the varied conditions of the
problem. It is not as yet complete, and in
the absence of fresh discoveries in the field of
MS. literature perhaps may never be entirely
so, but the fact that it places the question on...
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