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U is for Una
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My very first origins came from the scribbler studying Edmund Spencer’s The Faerie Queene in college. The names Una, Duessa, and Fidessa remained with her over the years, coming back in to strike in The Keep.
No, I was never part of this Keep. I think the scribbler recalled another faerie named Una when she saw the sad, plain forms in comic books of faeries stripped of their glamour. Aspects of…
Edmund Spenser Dies in London
13 January 1599
It was on this day in British history, 13 January 1599, that English poet Edmund Spenser died in London. Spenser is best known for his epic poem ‘The Faerie Queene,’ an allegory that praises the Tudor dynasty and Queen Elizabeth I. Spenser is considered one of the greatest English poets and though ‘The Faerie Queene’ was left incomplete at his death, it is still the longest epic poem in the English language.
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