ext_12644 ([identity profile] menin-aeide.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] lesbiassparrow 2006-05-22 02:06 am (UTC)

Even the Victorians thought marrying Ivanhoe off to Rowena was a mistake. Thackeray wrote a comic sequel, Rebecca and Rowena (http://www.hicom.net/~oedipus/books/randr.html), in which he

calls into question the ending of Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, exploring the miserable marriage of Sir Wilfrid to the 'icy, faultless, prim' Rowena. In an irreverent and theatrical plot, in which the dead come back to life, marriage is exposed as really quite dull, and imperialism is mocked mercilessly, Thackeray ridiculously reunites Ivanhoe with his first love, Rebecca, claiming they were wrongly separated in the earlier novel.

Which might well count as 19th-c. fanfic, I suppose.


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