William Morris\u27s \u3ci\u3eThe Wood Beyond The World\u3c/i\u3e: The Victorian World \u3ci\u3evs.\u3c/i\u3e The Mythic Eternities

Analysis of the character of the maiden in The Wood Beyond the World. Notes that as a woman both chaste and possessed of wizardly powers—like her decidedly unchaste counterpart, the Mistress—she engenders a degree of tension and uncertainty until the end of the novel. Sees Morris’s attitudes toward sex and society in terms of his Victorian background