Other Non-Fiction Weston, Jessie L: From Ritual to Romance, v.1, 25 May 2008.

[Patricia]

Jessie Laidlay Weston (1850-1928)
From Ritual to Romance (1920)

From Wikipedia:
“The work's current fame rests on it being mentioned by T. S. Eliot in the notes to his poem, The Waste Land:
Not only the title, but the plan and a good deal of the incidental symbolism of the poem were suggested by Miss Jessie L. Weston's book.
Weston's book is an academic examination of the roots of the King Arthur legends and seeks to make connections between the early pagan elements and the later Christian influences. The book's main focus is on the Holy Grail tradition and its influence, particularly the Wasteland motif. The origins of Weston's book are in James George Frazer's seminal work on folklore, magic and religion, The Golden Bough, and in the works of Miss Jane Ellen Harrison.
The book appears in the film Apocalypse Now, among those kept by the character, Colonel Walter E. Kurtz, played by Marlon Brando, along with The Golden Bough.”

Most contemporary scholars no longer subscribe to Miss Weston’s theory but is was (and continues to be) an influence on artists and people who like esoteric reading.

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