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The Forest Lovers

First published: 1898
Pages: 319

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I. PROSPER LE GAI RIDES OUT
21:48
II. MORGRAUNT, AND A DEAD KNIGHT
22:19
III. HOLY THORN AND HOLY CHURCH
12:06
IV. DOM GALORS
9:37
V. LA DESIROUS
23:01
VI. THE VIRGIN MARRIAGE
23:35
VII. GALORS ABJURES
10:41
VIII. THE SALLY AT DAWN
32:39
IX. THE BLOOD-CHASE AND THE LOVE CHASE
15:48
X. FOREST ALMS
15:48
XI. SANCTUARY
14:21
XII. BROKEN SANCTUARY
18:51
XIII. HIGH MARCH, AND A GREAT LADY
13:39
XIV. A RECORDER
31:27
XV. THREE AT TORTSENTIER
39:32
XVI. BOY AND GIRL
22:37
XVII. ROY
28:51
XVIII. BOY'S LOVE
11:49
XIX. LADY'S LOVE
24:28
XX. HOW PROSPER HELD A REVIEW
26:31
XXI. HOW THE NARRATIVE SMACKS AGAIN OF THE SOIL
11:27
XXII GALORS CONQUAESTOR
20:05
XXIII. FALVE THE CHARCOAL-BURNER
12:04
XXIV. SECRET THINGS AT HAUTERIVE
15:24
XXV. THE ROAD TO GOLTRES
9:55
XXVI. GUESS-WORK AT GOLTRES
25:32
XXVII. GALORS RIDES HUNTING
8:39
XXVIII. MERCY WITH THE BEASTS.
15:29
XXIX. WANMEETING CRIES, 'HA! SAINT JAMES!'
21:16
XXX. THE CHAINED VIRGIN OF SAINT THORN
16:09
XXXI. 'ENTRA PER ME'
13:09
XXXII 'BIDE THE TIME'
16:57
XXXIII. SALOMON IS DRIVEN HOME
16:21
XXXIV. LA DESIRÉE
8:19
XXXV. FOREST LOVE
11:17
XXXVI. THE LADY PIETOSA DE BRÉAUTÉ
20:24

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The Forest Lovers is a historical romance by Maurice Hewlett (1861-1923), the English novelist, poet, and essayist whose serious body of late Victorian and Edwardian historical fiction made him one of the leading English romance writers of his generation. The novel was first published in 1898 and was one of Hewlett's first major commercial successes.

The book is set in medieval England and follows the romantic adventures of Prosper le Gai, a young knight, and Isoult la Desirous, the young woman he marries early in the novel under unusual circumstances. The plot moves through forest landscapes, knightly combats, romantic complications, and the various dramatic situations that the late Victorian medievalist tradition required for serious historical romance.

Hewlett worked in the medievalist tradition that William Morris had developed across the previous decades and that the broader pre-Raphaelite literary and artistic movement had shaped. His historical fiction generally combines careful period detail with notable romantic and dramatic plot in the manner that late Victorian historical romance favored. The Forest Lovers remained in print continuously for several decades after its first publication.

About the author

Maurice Hewlett

Maurice Hewlett was an English novelist, essayist, and poet whose work ranged across travel writing, historical romance, short fiction, drama, and verse. Born in 1861, he trained in law and held a government records post before literature became his principal career.