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Maiden Castle (novel)
Maiden Castle by John Cowper Powys's was first published in 1936 and is the last of Powys's so-called Wessex novels, following ''Wolf Solent'' (1929), ''A Glastonbury Romance'' (1932), ''Weymouth Sands'' (1934).〔Herbert Williams, ''John Cowper Powys''. (Bridgend, Wales: Seren, 1997), p.94.〕 Powys was an admirer of Thomas Hardy, and these novels are set in Somerset and Dorset, part of Hardy's mythical Wessex.〔Powys's first novel ''Wood and Stone'' (1915) was dedicated to Thomas Hardy. It is set on the Dorset and Somerset border.〕 American scholar Richard Maxwell describes these four novels "as remarkably successful with the reading public of his time".〔"Two Canons: On the Meaning of Powys's Relation to Scott and his Turn to Historical Fiction", ''Western Humanities Review'', vol. LVII, no. 1, Spring 2003, p. 103.〕 ''Maiden Castle'' is set in Dorchester, Dorset Thomas Hardy's Casterbridge, and which Powys intended to be a "rival" to Hardy's ''Mayor of Casterbridge''.〔Morine Krissdottir, ''Descents of Memory: The Life of John Cowper Powys''. (New York: Overlook Duckworth, 2007), p.312.〕 Glen Cavaliero describes Dorchester as "vividly present throughout the book as a symbol of the continuity of civilization.〔Glen Cavaliero, ''John Cowper Powys: Novelist''. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1973), p. 94〕 The title alludes to the Iron Age, hill fort Maiden Castle that stands near to Dorchester.
Powys, along with Phyllis Playter, returned permanently to England in June 1934 and, while staying near the village of Chaldon, Dorset, Powys began ''Maiden Castle'' in late August 1934,〔Morine Krissdottir, ''Descents of Memory, pp.307, 303.〕 In October 1934 they moved to Dorchester but then they moved again, to Corwen North Wales, in July 1935, where ''Maiden Castle'' was completed in February 1936.〔Morine Krissdottir, ''Descents of Memory''. pp. 308, 323, 325〕
Until 1990 ''Maiden Castle'' was only available in an abridged version, because Powys original typescript of ''Maiden Castle'' had been reduced by about one-fifth of its original length for the previous editions. In 1990 the University of Wales Press published "the first full authoritative edition" under the editorship of Ian Hughes.〔Ian Hughes, "Introduction" to ''Maiden Castle''. (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1990), p. vii.〕
==Plot==
''Maiden Castle'' is about "the difficult relationship of a historical novelist (No-Man ) () and a young circus acrobat (Raveleston ). Another major character, the novelist's father (Quirm ) believes that he is "the incarnation of a Welsh god".〔Information on the inside of the cover of ''Maiden Castle'' (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1990).〕 Uryen tries "to reawake the old gods once worshipped" at Maiden Castle,〔C. A. Coates, ''John Cowper Powys in Search of a Landscape''. (Totowa, NJ: Barnes & Noble, 1982), p. 132.〕 but he fails in this, just as his son fails in his relationship with Wizzie.〔C. A. Coates, ''John Cowper Powys in Search of a Landscape'', p. 132.〕
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