Scholarship and criticism on Marion Zimmer Bradley

Notice

This is not necessarily a "complete" bibliography of scholarship on this author. Rather, it is a selective bibliography of feminist SF scholarship, or scholarship of particular interest to feminist SF scholars.

Reviews of Bradley works

Vonda McIntyre.

• [Review of Darkover Landfall] The Witch and the Chameleon 2 (Nov. 1974): 20-4.

Reference

Walter Breen.

• The Darkover Concordance. Pennyfarthing Press. n.d.

Bibliography

Rosemarie Arbur.

• Leigh Brackett, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Anne McCaffrey: A Primary and Secondary Bibliography. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1982.

Gordon Benson and Phil Stephenson-Payne.

• Marion Zimmer Bradley, Mistress of Magic: A Working Bibliography (Galactic Central Bibliographies Ser. No. 40) (Borgo Press, 1992)

Other works

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Rosemarie Arbur.

• Marion Zimmer Bradley (Starmont Reader's Guide Series, volume 27) (Mercer Island, Wash.: Starmont House, 1985; Borgo Press: 1985) (ISBN 0-916732-95-9)
• "Marion Zimmer Bradley." 70-1. In Science Fiction Writers. Ed. Curtis Smith.

Debra A. Benko.

• "Morgan le Fay and King Arthur in Malory's Works and Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Mists of Avalon: Sibling Discord and the Fall of the Round Table." 23-31 In The Significance of Sibling Relationships in Literature. ed. JoAnna S. Mink. and Janet D. Ward. Bowling Green, OH : Popular, 1992.

Walter Breen.

• The Darkover Concordance (Berkeley, Calif.: Pennyfarthing Press, 1979).

Cowan, Robert

• Introduction, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Diana Paxson, Diana Donaldson, and Evangeline Walton. "Why Write Fantasy? A Mythopoeic Conference XIV Panel." Mythlore. 10:4 (38) (1984 Spring), 23-27.

Janice C. Crosby.

• Cauldron of Changes: Feminist Spirituality in Fantastic Fiction (McFarland: 2000, ISBN 0786408480). Studies on Marion Zimmer Bradley, Kim Chernin, Alice Walker, Mercedes Lackey, Patricia Kennealy, Gael Baudino, Octavia Butler, Lynn Abbey, Joan Vinge, Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor, Ntozake Shange, and Starhawk.

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Denise Du Pont.

• editor, Women of Vision: Essays By Women Writing Science Fiction. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988. Includes essays by Ursula K. Le Guin, Virginia Kidd, Anne McCaffrey, Patricia C. Hodgell, Alice Sheldon (James Tiptree), Suzette Haden Elgin, Lee Killough, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Eleanor Arnason, Joan D. Vinge, Pamela Sargent, and Suzy McKee Charnas.

Farwell, Marilyn R.

• "Heterosexual Plots and Lesbian Subtexts: Towards a Theory of Lesbian Narrative Space." 8?1-103. In Lesbian Texts and Contexts: Radical Revisions. ed. Karla Jay, Joanne Glasgoqw, and Catherine Stimpson. NYUP, 1990.

Fry, Carrol L.

• "The Goddess Ascending: Feminist Neo-Pagan Witchcraft in Marian Zimmer Bradley's Novels." Journal of Popular Culture. 27:1 (1993 Summer), 67-80.
• Fry, Carrol L. "'What God Doth the Wizard Pray To': Neo-Pagan Withcraft and Fantay Fiction." Extrapolation 31.4 (Winter 1990): 333-46?.

Fuog, Karin E. C.

• "Imprisoned in the Phallic Oak: Marion Zimmer Bradley and Merlin's Seductress." Quondam-et-Futurus. 1:1 (1991 Spring) 73-88.

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C. A. Green.

• "Only a Girl: Heroines in the Work of Anne McCaffrey and Marion Zimmer Bradley" (2008)

Kathryn M. Hopson.

• Re-Visioning Morgan le Fay: A Unifying Metaphor for the Image of Woman in Twentieth Century Literature. Dissertation Abstracts International, Ann Arbor, MI (DAI).1993 Oct, 54:4, 1365A DAI No.: DA9324601. Degree granting institution: U of Southwestern Louisiana, 1993

Barbara Hornum.

• "Wife / Mother, Sorceress / Keeper, Amazon / Renunciate: Status Ambivalence and Conflicting Roles on the Planet Darkover," pp. 153-164, in Women Worldwalkers, New Dimensions of SF & F, edited by Jane B. Weedman. (Lubbock, Texas: Texas Tech Press, 1985).

C. R. Huckfeldt.

• "Avoiding 'teapot tempests': The Politics of Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover" (2008) [1]

Linda K. Hughes.

• "The Pleasure Lies in Power: The Status of the Lie in Malory and Bradley." 99-112 In The Arthurian Yearbook, II. ed. Keith Busby. New York : Garland, 1992.

Melinda Hughes.

• "Dark Sisters and Light Sisters: Sister Doubling and the Search for Sisterhood in The Mists of Avalon and The White Raven." Mythlore 19:1 (1993 Winter) 24-28.

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Libby Falk Jones.

• "Gilman, Bradley, Piercy, and the Evolving Rhetoric of Feminist Utopias." 116-129. In Feminism, Utopia, and Narrative. ed. Libby Falk Jones and Sarah Webster Godwin. Knoxville : U of Tenn. P, 1990.

Anne K. Kaler.

• "Bradley and the Beguines: MZB's Debt to the Beguinal Societies in Her Use of Sisterhood in Her Darkover Novels." 70-90. In Heroines of Popular Culture. Ed. Pat Browne. Bowling Green, OH: Popular Press, 1987.

Richard Kimpel.

• "The Mists of Avalon / Die Niebel von Avalon: Marion Zimmer Bradley's German Bestseller." Journal of American Culture v. 9 (Fall 1986), pages 25-28.

Turner S. Kobler.

• "King Arthur and Popular Culture." 107-14 In The Arthurian Myth of Quest and Magic: A Festschrift in Honor of Lavon B. Fulwiler. ed. William E. Tanner. Dallas : Caxton's Mod. Arts, 1993.

Linda Leith.

• "Marion Zimmer Bradley and Darkover," Science Fiction Studies, v. 7, no. 1 (#20) (March 1980): pp. 28-35.

A.E.A. Lindstrom

• "A Skeptical Feminist Exploration of Binary Dystopias in Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Mists of Avalon" (2005)

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James Noble.

• "Feminism, Homosexuality, and Homophobia in The Mists of Avalon. " 288-96 In Culture and the King: The Social Implications of the Arthurian Legend. ed. Martin B. Shichtman and James P. Carley. Albany : State U of New York P, 1994.

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Meredith Jane Ross.

• The Sublime to the Ridiculous: The Restructuring of Arthurian Materials in Selected Modern Novels. Dissertation Abstracts International, Ann Arbor, MI (DAI).1986 June, 46:12, 3717A

Joanna Russ.

• "Recent Feminist Utopias." 71-5. In Future Females: A Critical Anthology. Ed. Marleen S. Barr. Bowling Green OH: Popular Press, 1981.
• [Letter About Darkover Landfall] Witch and the Chameleon 4 (Sept. 1975): 15-18.

Roger Russi.

• Dialogues with Epic Figures: Christa Wolf's 'Kassandra', Monique Wittig's 'Les Guerilleres', and Marion Zimmer Bradley's 'The Firebrand.' Dissertation Abstracts International, Ann Arbor, MI (DAI). 1994 Feb, 54:8, 3021A DAI No.: DA9402177. Degree granting institution: U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1993.

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U.S. Scherer.

• "Images of Masculinity in Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Mists of Avalon: A Feminist's Quest for New Arthurian" heroes"? (thesis, University of Otago) (2006)

Susan M. Schwartz.

• "Marion Zimmer Bradley's Ethic of Freedom." 73-88 In The Feminine Eye: Science Fiction and the Women Who Write It. ed. Tom Staicar. New York : Ungar, 1982.

J. Shaw.

• "Troublesome Teleri: Contemporary Feminist Utopianism in Marion Zimmer Bradley's Lady of Avalon" (2009) [2]

Sallye J. Sheppeard.

• "Arthur and the Goddess: Cultural Crisis in The Mists of Avalon." 91-104 In The Arthurian Myth of Quest and Magic: A Festschrift in Honor of Lavon B. Fulwiler. ed. William E. Tanner. Dallas :Caxton's Mod. Arts, 1993.

Charlotte Spivack.

• Chapter on MZB in Merlin's Daughters. Greenwood, 1987: 149-62.
• "Morgan Le Fay: Goddess or Witch?." 18-23 In Popular Arthurian Traditions. ed. Sally K. Slocum. Bowling Green, OH : Popular, 1992.

Lee Ann Tobin.

• "Why Change the Arthur Story? Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Mists of Avalon ." Extrapolation. 34:2 (1993 Summer), 147-57.

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Sabine Volk-Birke.

• "The Cyclical Way of the Priestess: On the Significance of Narrative Structures in Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Mists of Avalon", Anglia (Anglia: Zeitschrift Fur Englishe Philologie) v.108, 100.3-4 (1990): 409-428.

Diane S. Wise.

• The Darkover Dilemma: Problems of the Darkover Series. Baltimore: T-K Graphics,1976.
• "Gender Roles in the Darkover Novels of Marion Zimmer Bradley", in Women Worldwalkers: New Dimensions of Science Fiction and Fantasy, ed. Jane B. Weedman, pp. 237-246. Lubbock: Texas Tech Press, 1985.

sources

• bibliography by Dr. Elisa Kay Sparks' work, updated through 1997
• independent research