''Maid Marian'' is a novella by

Thomas Love Peacock Thomas Love Peacock (18 October 1785 – 23 January 1866) was an English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company. He was a close friend of Percy Bysshe Shelley and they influenced each other's work. Peacock wrote satirical novels, ...

, his fourth long work of fiction, published in 1822. Peacock wrote all but the last three chapters of ''Maid Marian'' at Marlow in 1818. He wrote to Percy Bysshe Shelley that he did not find "this brilliant summer", of 1818, "very favourable to intellectual exertion" but before it was quite over "rivers, castles, forests, abbeys, monks, maids, kings, and banditti were all dancing before me like a masked ball". However, in 1819 Peacock was recruited to the East India Company where his official duties delayed the completion and publication of the novella until 1822. As a result of the delay, it was taken for an imitation of '' Ivanhoe'' although its composition had, in fact, preceded Scott's novel. It was soon dramatised with great success by

James Planché James Robinson Planché (27 February 1796 – 30 May 1880) was a British dramatist, antiquary and officer of arms. Over a period of approximately 60 years he wrote, adapted, or collaborated on 176 plays in a wide range of genres including ...

, and was translated into French and German.

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Text of ''Maid Marian'', at the T. L. Peacock Society
1822 British novels British novellas English novels Novels by Thomas Love Peacock Robin Hood books Novels set in Nottinghamshire {{1820s-novel-stub