* The Malory Towers series

Examples of this type are the Malory Towers stories, the St Clare's series, and the Naughtiest Girl books and are typical of the times — many comics of the day also contained similar types of story.

The series follows the heroine Darrell Rivers from her first year at Malory Towers to when she leaves.

In " Goodbye Malory Towers ", she and the old girls have a reunion and she becomes an author.

# First Term at Malory Towers ( 1946 )

# Second Form at Malory Towers ( 1947 )

# Third Year at Malory Towers ( 1948 )

# Upper Fourth at Malory Towers ( 1949 )

# In the Fifth at Malory Towers ( 1950 )

# Last Term at Malory Towers ( 1951 )

# New Term at Malory Towers ( 2009 )

# Summer Term at Malory Towers ( 2009 )

# Winter Term at Malory Towers ( 2009 )

# Fun and Games at Malory Towers ( 2009 )

# Secrets at Malory Towers ( 2009 )

# Goodbye Malory Towers ( 2009 )

The German translation of the series adds twelve books occurring after the sixth, with Darrell ( in the German version: Dolly Rieder ) returning to a college associated with Malory Towers (" Burg Möwenfels "), the " Möwennest " ( Malory Nest -- literally " Seagulls ' Nest ").

As the story develops she returns to Malory Towers, first as educator, then she becomes matron of the famous ' North Tower ' where she resided as a child.

She marries her former " Möwennest " teacher in German and Literature, has a baby girl ( Katharina ) and finally becomes headmistress of Malory Towers, after Miss Grayling ( Frau Greiling ) had been seriously injured in a traffic accident, and is unable to work any longer.

Several other characters from the first six volumes appear again: Felicity ( Felizitas ), Darrell's sister, gets her A-Levels at Malory Towers and moves on to the Malory Nest.

Bill ( Will ) and her friend Clarissa take over the riding school of both Malory Towers and Malory Nest, Gwendoline ( Evelyn ) is a student at Malory Nest in Vols.

It is from this fanciful etymological musing that Thomas Malory got the notion that Excalibur meant " cut steel " ("' the name of it ,' said the lady, ' is Excalibur, that is as moche to say, as Cut stele.

Most of what is known about Malory stems from the accounts describing him in the prayers found in the Winchester Manuscript, distinguishing him from the other six individuals also bearing the name Thomas Malory in the 15th century when Le Morte d ' Arthur was written.

In a collection of chancery proceedings, it is heard of a petition brought against Malory by Richard Kyd, parson of Papworth, claiming that Malory ambushed him on a November evening, and took him from Papworth, to Huntingdon, and then to Bedford, to Northampton, all the while being threatened on his life to either forfeit his church unto Malory, or else give £ 100.

This is Sir Thomas Malory of Newbold Revel in Warwickshire.

The fourth and final contender for the title of authorship is the little-known Thomas Malory from Hutton Conyers, in Yorkshire.

This claim was put forth in The Ill-Framed Knight: A Skeptical Inquiry Into the Identity of Sir Thomas Malory, written by the aforementioned William Matthews, a British professor who taught at UCLA ( and is most famous for his transcription of the Diary of Samuel Pepys ).

This cameo is included in the Broadway musical Camelot, and in the later film, where his name is given as " Sir Tom of Warwick ", thus supporting the claim of Thomas Malory of Newbold Revel.

* Winchester is specifically described as being Camelot in Thomas Malory.

* Alnwick Castle is a contender for Lancelot's castle Joyous Garde according to Malory.

** Bamburgh Castle is an alternative contender to Alnwick Castle for Lancelot's castle Joyous Gard according to Malory.

In Malory she is sentenced to be burnt at the stake but is rescued by Lancelot ; in the Idylls Guinevere flees to a convent, is forgiven by Arthur, repents, and serves in the convent until she dies.

No version of the story earlier than Malory's is known ; it is possible that Malory created the tale himself, though he may have relied on an older work that is now lost.

It is also Chrétien who first gives Lancelot the name Lancelot du Lac (“ Lancelot of the Lake ”) which was later picked up by the Anglo-French Lancelot-Grail and then Malory.

Danielle MacBain ’ s study of Thomas Malory ’ s “ Le Morte d ’ Arthur ,” claims Lancelot ’ s affair with Guinevere is often seen as parallel to that of Tristram, or Tristan, and Iseult.

In the Post-Vulgate Cycle and Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d ' Arthur, it is Morgan le Fay who becomes the wife of King Urien and mother of Ywain ( and Malory adds this information ).

The characters tend to be stereotypes and are very similar to the set of characters in Blyton's other boarding school series, Malory Towers.

Blyton wrote two other series about life at a boarding school: Malory Towers and the Naughtiest Girl series.

" Based on a more exhaustive study of the manuscript alongside Caxton's edition, Vinaver reached similar conclusions, and in his 1947 edition The Works of Sir Thomas Malory argued that Malory had in fact not written a single book, but produced a series of Arthurian tales which were internally consistent and independent works.

Currently she is the voice actor for Malory Archer in the FX animated series Archer and stars as Elaine Robbins in Retired at 35.

Galahad and the interpretation of the Grail involving him were picked up in the 15th century by Sir Thomas Malory in Le Morte d ' Arthur, and remain popular today.

The earliest conclusion was made by John Bale, a 16th century antiquarian, who declared that Malory was Welsh, hailing from Maloria on the River Dee.

A second candidate was presented by A. T. Martin, another antiquarian, who proposed in an article written in 1897, that the author was Thomas Malory of Papworth St. Agnes in Huntingdonshire.

The judgement went against Malory and he was in London's Marshalsea prison by 1452, where he remained for a year.

* Le Morte D ' Arthur by Thomas Malory has the Knights of the Round Table witness a divine vision of the Holy Grail on a Whitsunday, prompting their quest to find its true location.

The circumstances surrounding the conception of the boy Galahad are explained by Sir Thomas Malory and derive from the Lancelot-Grail cycle: Elaine, the daughter of King Pelles, the Grail King, uses magic to trick Sir Lancelot into thinking that she is Queen Guinevere, whom Lancelot loves.

According to Malory, King Pelles has already received magical foreknowledge that Lancelot will give his daughter a child and that this little boy will grow to become the greatest knight in the world, the knight chosen by God to achieve the Holy Grail.

Galahad's conception is later glossed by Malory: " And so by enchantment won the love of Sir Lancelot, and certainly she loved him again passing well .” Galahad was conceived for the divine purpose of seeking the Holy Grail.

* Le Morte d ' Arthur by Thomas Malory: " There sat a knight all armed in black harness, and his name was the Knight of the Black Laund.

The premise is that Arthur's youth, not dealt with in Malory, was a time when he was tutored by Merlyn to prepare him for the use of power and royal life.

Beardsley's first commission was Le Morte d ' Arthur by Thomas Malory ( 1893 ), which he illustrated for the publishing house J. M. Dent and Company.

King Arthur's encounter with the giant of St Michael's Mount-or Mont Saint Michel in Brittany-was related by Geoffrey of Monmouth in Historia Regum Britanniae in 1136, and published by Sir Thomas Malory in 1485 in the fifth chapter of the fifth book of Le Morte d ' Arthur: Then came to Arthur an husbandman ... and told him how there was ... a great giant which had slain, murdered and devoured much people of the country ... journeyed to the Mount, discovered the giant roasting dead children, ... and hailed him, saying ... rise and dress thee, thou glutton, for this day shalt thou die of my hand.

* Le Morte D ' Arthur by Thomas Malory

Le Morte d ' Arthur ( originally spelled Le Morte Darthur, Middle French for " the death of Arthur ") is a compilation by Sir Thomas Malory of Romance tales about the legendary King Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, and the Knights of the Round Table.

Malory probably started work on Le Morte d ' Arthur while he was in prison in the early 1450s and completed it by 1470.