King Arthur

Having always wanted to write a historical novel, MS later recalled that the idea for The Crystal Cave came from a story in an early history of King Arthur : Geoffrey of Monmouth 's twelfth-century...

The TLS review commented, as had earlier ones, on the rapid, impressive improvement in RS 's work; it felt she was well on her way to becoming a writer for adults rather than for children...

MS , who began publishing in the mid 1950s, won great success as an author of popular romance thrillers (a genre whose invention her Guardian obituary chalks up to her) and of Arthurian historical novels...

EJ 's The Mystery of King Arthur was advertised in July as to be published on this date.

Antonia Pakenham (later AF ) published her earliest book, the children's history King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, written at the behest of her publisher employer.

RS chose the England of King Arthur for an adult novel entitled Sword at Sunset, which her new publishers, Hodder and Stoughton , advertised as her greatest novel.

In 1979-81 RS published a trilogy of books, The Sword and the Circle, The Light Beyond the Forest, and The Road to Camlann, which were subsequently re-issued together as The King Arthur...

MS published The Crystal Cave, the first of her Merlin series of three historical novels and of a total of five Arthurian books.

MS published the second of her Arthurian historical novels, The Hollow Hills.

MS published her third book in the Merlin series of Arthurian historical novels, The Last Enchantment.

MS published The Wicked Day, the fourth in her Arthurian historical-novel or fantasy series, with Mordred as the central character.