Publisher's Synopsis
Maid Marian, an orphaned heiress, struggles against scheming, duplicitous relatives for the right to her own lands. A medieval romance featuring Robin Hood, Maid Marian, Friar Tuck, and Prince John. Lampoons institutions such as the monarchy and the church in the post-Napoleonic era. Amy Ella Blanchard, born in Baltimore, was a writer of children's literature. Blanchard studied art in New York and Philadelphia and for two years taught drawing and painting in Plainfield, N.J. One of her most recognised novels is Little Maid Marian.