Ancestors of Avalon

Name: Ancestors of Avalon
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Author: Unknown Author
ISBN: 9780007138449

by Unknown Author

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363 pages2004HarperCollins Publishers LimitedISBN 9780007138449

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"When Rome invades, Lhiannon joins the Druids, devoting her powers to the fight, while Boudica marries Prasutagos, a king who has accepted the empire's rule to keep his people safe. But when he dies, the Romans brutalize Boudica and her daughters. In rage, Queen Boudica raises the British tribes and nearly succeeds in driving the Romans from Britain, claiming a place in history. Lhiannon, a warrior in her own way, survives years of conflict, with Rome and within herself, to become the guardian of the Druid traditions in the new Roman Britain as high priestess of the Forest House."--BOOK JACKET.

Publication Details

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Published: 2004
Pages: 363
ISBN: 9780007138449
Language: en

About Unknown Author

Marion Zimmer was born on a farm in Albany, New York, during the Great Depression. As a child, she enjoyed reading adventure fantasy stories. She began writing them herself in 1949 and sold her first story to Vortex in 1952. She also married Robert Alden Bradley in 1949. Early in her career, she used pseudonyms for stories she wrote outside the speculative fiction genre, including some gay and lesbian pulp fiction novels such as I Am a Lesbian (1962). In 1964 she divorced her first husband and married numismatist Walter H. Breen. In 1965 she received her B.A. degree from Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Texas. She then moved to Berkeley, California, to pursue graduate studies at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1966, she co-founded the Society for Creative Anachronism. In 1967 she moved to Staten Island, New York. She separated from her second husband in 1979 but remained married and continued a business relationship, until 1990 when he was arrested on child molestation charges and they divorced. After suffering declining health for years, she died in Berkeley in 1999. In 2000, she was awarded the World Fantasy Award for lifetime achievement.