Beatrice Groves

Jan 20, 2025 | mugglenet.com | Beatrice Groves

by Dr. Beatrice GrovesToday is the Eve of St. Agnes – a day most famous in the literary world as the setting for John Keats’s poem of the same name. St. Agnes was a Roman virgin martyr, a friend to and protector of maidens, but (rather oddly, given the saint’s own miraculously preserved virginity) folklore grew up that if a young woman fasted and performed certain rites on St. Agnes’ Eve, she would dream of her future husband.

May 4, 2024 | petnews2day.com | Beatrice Groves

by Dr. Beatrice GrovesThis piece was written to mark the publication of Lana A. Whited’s The Ivory Tower, Harry Potter, and Beyond, nevertheless it additionally marks a celebration of the work of the British novelist Lynne Reid Banks, one month after her passing. Lynne Reid Banks’s young grownup novels had been a few of my favorites as an adolescent and I used to be fascinated to find in considered one of her much less well-known novels, Melusine, a attainable supply for the Wizarding World.

May 3, 2024 | mugglenet.com | Beatrice Groves

by Dr. Beatrice GrovesThis piece was written to mark the publication of Lana A. Whited’s The Ivory Tower, Harry Potter, and Beyond, but it also marks a celebration of the work of the British novelist Lynne Reid Banks, one month after her passing. Lynne Reid Banks’s young adult novels were some of my favorites as a teenager and I was fascinated to discover in one of her less famous novels, Melusine, a possible source for the Wizarding World.

Feb 29, 2024 | mugglenet.com | Beatrice Groves

By Dr Beatrice GrovesHappy St David’s Day!Wales is renowned for sporting prowess in Harry Potter – home not only to the Holyhead Harpies, an all-female team founded in 1203 whose captain is the famous Gwenog Jones but also (according to Quidditch Through the Ages) the Caerphilly Catapults, and then there are the Tutshill Tornados flying near, and no doubt sometimes over, the Welsh border.

Dec 16, 2023 | mugglenet.com | Beatrice Groves |Sas Rhodes

By Beatrice GrovesOne of the satisfying gender reversals of the Austenian links with Harry Potter is that while Hermione parallels Austen’s feistiest heroines (Emma and Elizabeth Bennet), the series’ hero is most clearly aligned with Austen’s most youthfully innocent or passive heroines: Catherine Morland in Northanger Abbey and Fanny in Mansfield Park.