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Femme Fatale Friday

  • Elizabeth Woodville as Manipulative Vixen

    For this week’s Femme Fatale Friday here at White Rose of Avalon I have chosen to look as the negative rumors spread about Elizabeth Woodville!    I have spoken about her love story with her King Edward IV before.   Earlier this week I wrote a comparison between her and Guinevere.   Given that the…

  • Freya and Friday the 13th

    Hello my lovely readers, and welcome to another Femme Fatale Friday, here at White Rose of Avalon!    Today it is a special Friday the 13th edition, where I will look at the Norse goddess Freya, and how she was demonized by the Church.    Friday the 13th was the most sacred of her days,…

  • Cleopatra: Deadly Pharaoh

    Hello my lovely readers, and welcome to Femme Fatale Friday, here at White Rose of Avalon.    For this week’s femme fatale I have chosen to discuss the life and legend of Cleopatra VII of Egypt.     She was the last queen of Egypt, and an icon of female power in an era when…

  • Lizzie Borden Took an Axe

    Welcome to this week’s Femme Fatale Friday, here at White Rose of Avalon!  Additionally, today marks my 200th post here at White Rose of Avalon! I would like to thank all my regular readers, and welcome any new readers!   For this week, I will discuss a truly fatal female, Lizzie Borden.    Lizzie Borden…

  • Zelda Fitzgerald

    For this week’s Femme Fatale Friday, here at White Rose of Avalon, I have chosen to write about Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald.    Zelda was the wife of iconic novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald, and she was a woman who flouted convention.    She inspired many of his most iconic characters, and in fact was called by…

  • Guinevere as Arthurian Adulteress

    Welcome to the first ever Femme Fatale Friday here at  White Rose of Avalon!    For this first post in this themed Friday series I have chosen to discuss a figure I have talked about often on this site, Arthur’s wife Guinevere.    Today I want to specifically look at Guinevere’s role as an adulteress…

  • Announcing Femme Fatale Friday!

    Tonight I want to announce that beginning tomorrow I will be doing themed Friday posts!    Each post will fit into the Femme Fatale Friday theme.    I am using the term femme fatale, but not all of the figures I will write about on Fridays will be truly killer women (although some will be). …