CHAPTER SIXTEEN
Persia Woolley
“It’s no easy business being queen of any country, and I should imagine a High Queen has more demands made upon her than most. I know you’ll handle them well girl…and be a good mate besides…You’re too much like your mother not to.”482
— Child of the Northern Spring by Persia Woolley
“Through the Eyes of a Real Woman”
As the 1980s came to an end and the 1990s began, Persia Woolley was penning a completely different take on Guinevere. In the preface of the final book in The Guinevere Trilogy, Guinevere: The Legend in Autumn (1991), Woolley explains why she tackled such a well-trod subject: “It seems clear that although women look at the same events as men, they see very different things…. I felt that it was time we took a new look at an old story through t
