CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
Nancy Mckenzie and Rosalind Miles
“You are to write it down, Gwen. The story of your life. Of Arthur’s deeds. Of the times.”
If he meant to shock me, he succeeded.
“Me? Write it down? A woman’s words? Whatever for?”494
— Queen of Camelot by Nancy McKenzie
Guinevere and Elaine
As the twentieth century drew to a close, two more female novelists turned their attention to Guinevere, with very different results. Nancy McKenzie’s two Guinevere novels, The Child Queen (1994) and The High Queen (1995), were originally conceived of as one book by the author, but the publisher decided to split them into two, only to re-release them as a single volume, Queen of Camelot, in 2002.495 Though not as widely studied, and perhaps not as popular as many of the other modern female a
