White Rose of Avalon

Love

  • 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…

  • Freya: Warrior Love Goddess

    For today’s post I would like to take a look at the Love Goddess of the Norse Pantheon.    Freya was a goddess of both love and war.    She was in this way associated with both life and death, and even had a hall of warrior’s souls (just like Odin did), and she got…

  • My Top 5 Stress Busting Techniques

    I know that life has been incredibly stressful for all of us lately, over the last year and a half really.    For that reason today I want to share a countdown of my top five favorite stress busters!    These are all ways in which I personally find beneficial for relieving stress. Number 5:…

  • Soulmates

    Soulmates, Twin Flames, Soulbound, all of these things conjure images of fated love.   The idea that your true love has been one that you have loved through many lifetimes is an ultimately romantic idea!   This theme has captured the imagination of many artists throughout time.    Some cynics and skeptics refuse to acknowledge…

  • Priestesses of Aphrodite

    For today’s post I would like to take a brief look at what it meant to be a priestess to love goddesses in the ancient world!   In ancient Greece and Rome, priestesses in honor of Aphrodite and Venus (respectively) were a bit unlike those honoring other Greco-Roman goddesses.   Priestesses of Aphrodite-Venus were vessels…

  • Anne Boleyn and the Art of Flirting in Royal Courts

    I have written about courtly love traditions before.   Today I want to focus on a specific element of courtly love tradition.    Flirting was something well groomed and intelligent courtiers were expected to participate in.   There were rules to how to flirt without offending the strict traditions of the royal courts! Flirting would…

  • The Phantom of Manhattan

    Today I want to do a short review of the book The Phantom of Manhattan by Frederick Forsyth.    This is a novel that continued the story of The Phantom of the Opera.    Andrew Lloyd Webber himself was a great supporter of this novel, and would years later use it as a basis for…

  • Usage of Roses in Fairytales

    Today I want to talk about why the rose is used so often in fairytales and fairytale films.   Most iconically the rose is used in my favorite Sleeping Beauty and in Beauty and the Beast!   I love analyzing why certain aspects of fairytales can be seen across many different tales! In both Sleeping…

  • Enchanted

    The Disney film Enchanted is an homage to all the great classic Disney animated features.   They even included cameos with some of the classic voice actors from those films.   For instance Robert’s assistant is played by Jodi Benson, the woman who voiced Ariel in The Little Mermaid!   The narrator is the incomparable…

  • My Ranking of the Bridgerton Siblings

    I have recently been reading the Bridgerton books by Julia Quinn.    I have already seen the first season of the Netflix series as well.    This has led me to want to make a list of my favorite Bridgerton siblings!   So this post will count down all eight siblings. Number 8: Francesca ~Francesca…