Who is the author of The Maid of Buttermere and Time to Dance?
Mary Robinson (Maid of Buttermere) Mary Robinson (Maid of Buttermere) Mary Robinson (1778 – 7 February 1837) was known as "The Maid of Buttermere" and is mentioned in William Wordsworth's "The Prelude". She is the subject of Melvyn Bragg's 1987 novel "The Maid of Buttermere", which was adapted into a play by Lisa Evans and premiered at Keswick's Theatre by the Lake in 2009. She was a shepherdess and the daughter of the landlord of the Fish Inn in the village of Buttermere in England's Lake District. She was married bigamously in 1802 to John Hatfield (c.1758–1803), who presented himself as "Colonel Hope". The marriage
The King and the Beggar-maid makes a reference to "The prince and the beggar-maid", implying he has married the serving girl who was infatuated with him. P. D. James, in her book "Cover Her Face" (1962) has Eleanor Maxie say "These King Cophetua marriages seldom work out" in reference to the supposed engagement between her son and her maid. This was James's first novel, and the first in the Adam Dalgliesh series. Anthony Powell compares the Beggar Maid to Pamela Flitton in "Books Do Furnish a Room", volume ten of "A Dance to the Music of Time". In John Fowles' "The Magus", a (finally naked)