White Rose of Avalon

Literary Love

  • Announcing Gothic Romance Week 2025!

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   Today’s post is the announcement that beginning on Saturday, October 25th, I will be celebrating Gothic Romance Week 2025.   The theme of this year’s Gothic Romance Week is Dracula!   That makes it not only Gothic Romance Week, but also Vampire Week (which is…

  • Ranking the Universal Monsters!

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   For today’s blog post, I have decided to rank all of the classic Universal Monsters.   To be clear, I am ranking the Monsters themselves, not the films in which they appear, as that ranking would surely differ from this one.   I was inspired…

  • Vampires and Embracing Feminine Sexuality

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.    For today’s first Femme Fatale Friday blog post of October, I will be discussing folklore and sexuality of Vampires!   In particular, I will examine female Vampires and their unique brand of sexuality in literature, films, and television series.   This will include looking at…

  • Announcing the Avalonian Rose Faery Mysteries ‘Practical Magic’ Book Club: Coming Soon to My Patreon!

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   For today’s blog post, I am announcing that I will be launching a Practical Magic Book Club for 2026 on my Patreon, Avalonian Rose Faery Mysteries!   This Book Club will begin in March 2026 and run through June 2026.    For a bit more…

  • ‘The Vampire’ by Rudyard Kipling: Poem Analysis

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   For today’s blog post, I am sharing my analysis of the poem The Vampire by Rudyard Kipling.   I have long loved this poem, especially as it went on to inspire one of the only Theda Bara films we can still watch today, A Fool…

  • We Need to Talk About ‘The Tempest’ (2010)

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   For today’s Mermaid Monday post, I want to discuss the very watery and Island-set film adaptation of Shakespeare’s final play, The Tempest, from 2010, directed by Julie Taymor.   Now, this is a film that I had always wanted to see, given my love for…

  • ‘The Mermaid’ by W.B. Yeats Poem Analysis

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   For today’s blog post, I am sharing my line-by-line analysis of the short poem The Mermaid by William Butler (W.B.) Yeats!   I have accessed the text of the poem on https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/mermaid-10#google_vignette.   As a brief sidenote, the version of this poem that I am…

  • Calypso, Enchantress of ‘The Odyssey’

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.    For this week’s Femme Fatale Friday, I will be discussing Calypso!   Now, I did write about Calypso a bit in a recent post where I discussed Aquatic lore in The Odyssey, but I have surprisingly never written a whole post just about Calypso.  …

  • Aquatic Lore in ‘The Odyssey’

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.    For today’s Mermaid Monday blog post, I will be exploring the Aquatic and Mermaidy lore in The Odyssey!   In five separate sections below, I will look briefly at each figure from The Odyssey.   Without further ado, let’s look at figures with Aquatic lore…

  • Luthien: The Middle-Earth Enchantment of Tinuviel

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   Today’s Femme Fatale Friday post is about Luthien from the works of J.R.R. Tolkien!   Now, Luthien is not a character found in the novels of The Hobbit or The Lord of the Rings.   However, legendary folk songs are sung of her in The…