Rosalind Miles

Rosalind Miles (born 6 January 1943) is an author born and raised in England and now living in both Los Angeles and Kent, England. She has written both works of fiction and non-fiction. As a child, Miles suffered from polio, and had to undergo several months of treatment. After being accepted to a junior women's college, Miles acquired a working knowledge of Latin and Greek, along with developing her life-long love of Shakespeare. At seventeen, she was promoted to St. Hilda's College, Oxford where she studied English literature, Anglo-Saxon, Middle English, Latin and French. She obtained five degrees in all, ending with a Ph.D. from the Shakespeare Institute at the University of Birmingham.

Miles later on became interested in jurisprudence, which resulted in her sitting as a lay magistrate in the English criminal and family courts, and eventually on the bench in a superior court in Coventry. She is also a regular commentator on the BBC, on Canadian Radio, and in "The Times". Miles is married with two children.

Works

Non-fiction

*"The Fiction of Sex: Themes and Functions of Sex Difference in the Modern Novel"
*"The Problem of Measure for Measure"
*"Ben Jonson: His Life and Work"
*"Ben Jonson: His Craft and Art"
*"The Female Form: Women Writers and the Conquest of the Novel"
*"Danger! Men At Work"
*"Modest Proposals"
*"Women and Power"
*"The Women's History of the World"
*"The Rites of Man: Love, Sex and Death in the Making of the Male" (US: "Love, Sex and Death and the Making of the Male")
*"The Children We Deserve: Love and Hate in the Making of the Family"

Fiction

*"Return to Eden"
*"Bitter Legacy"
*"Prodigal Sins"
*"Act of Passion"
*"I, Elizabeth: the Word of a Queen" [http://www.rosalind.net/reader_guide/ielizabeth/index.htm Reader's Guide]

*The Guenevere trilogy: [http://www.rosalind.net/reader_guide/index.htm Reader's Guide]
**"Guenevere, Queen of the Summer Country"
**"The Knight of the Sacred Lake"
**"The Child of the Holy Grail"

*The Isolde trilogy:
**"The Queen of the Western Isle"
**"The Maid of the White Hands"
**"The Lady of the Sea"

External links

* [http://www.rosalind.net/ Rosalind Miles's site]