here she is:(Beatrice Kathleen)Patricia Taylor "Arthur Avalon: The Creation of a Legendary Orientalist," in Myth and Mythmaking," ed. Julia Leslie [Richmond, Eng.: Curzon Press, 1996], pp. 151-61); see also her paper "Arthur Avalon among the Orientalists: Sir John Woodroffe and Tantra" ( Oxford University); and her book, "Sir John Woodroffe, Tantra, and Bengal: An Indian Soul in a European Body"(Richmond, Eng.: Curzon Press, 2oo1). http://books.google.com/books?id=tcykYqIfNqsC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Tay\ lor+The+Creation+Of+A+Legendary+Orientalist:+Sir+John+Woodroffe+As+%27Ar\ thur+Avalon%27+In&hl=de&ei=NfdoTqHbPIK0iQfE_ogn&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=r\ esult&resnum=2&sqi=2&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=mantra&f=false http://tinyurl.com/3n2yv2d She persuasively invites us to harbour no illusions about Woodroffe/Avalon, the name influenced merely by his favourite painting: Burne-Jones's "Arthur's sleep in Avalon "(based on Tennyson),
but nevertheless to respect him for what he achieved. Interesting and recommended read: In human terms, one thing that one misses in Taylor's account (not through any failing on her part, but through lack of surviving evidence) is a detailed impression of the warm and close friendships he undoubtedly had with Indians. In their heyday, he and his concert-pianist wife Ellen hosted one of Calcutta's most glittering salons. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozguru@...> wrote: SNIP > > As for Woodroofe, I have the doctoral thesis that was published about 10 > years ago where the author claims he may not have written most of those > books and that the were written by his Indian friend would not have been > published under his own name. snip
