Christabel’s Epic Poem Inspiration

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Karin’s dual timeline gothic, modern-day romance, Christabel, was inspired by the epic poem of the same name by Samual Taylor Coleridge. Unlike Coleridge, Karin presumes a witch met in the greenest of woods is a good witch. The creative push was provided by Jeanette Foster’s Sex Variant Women in Literature.

Trivia – Christabel

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The epic poem, after which Karin’s Christabel is named, sends a self-appointed knight into the evil, green forest to fight a witch for the soul of a young woman. It is presumed that the young woman wouldn’t stay with the witch unless she were under a spell. That script needed flipping.