Teresa Edgerton
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| Born | 1949 Van Nuys, California, United States |
| Pen name | Madeline Howard |
| Occupation | Author |
| Nationality | United States |
| Genre | Fantasy, steampunk, fantasy of manners |
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Teresa Edgerton (born 1949) is an author of fantasy novels and short stories set in worlds that parallel the Middle Ages and the 18th century.
Born Teresa Ann Waller in Van Nuys, California, in 1949, she lived in the Los Angeles area until the age of 14, when her family moved to northern California. In high school, she spent her lunch hours in the school library, devouring one historical novel after another. At about that same time she discovered fantasy writers T. H. White, J. R. R. Tolkien, and C. S. Lewis, and science fiction writer Andre Norton, whose combined influence would inspire her to begin creating imaginary worlds of her own. She met her husband, John Edgerton, in 1971, when she was working as a Tarot reader at a local Renaissance faire, and he was part of a Society for Creative Anachronism troupe putting on demonstrations of medieval tourney combat. They have four grown children: Gwyneth, Daisy, Megan, and John-Miles.
Her interest in medieval society, alchemy, magic, and Celtic mythology led her to begin writing the Green Lion Trilogy, a project which was to consume the next ten years of her life. The first book of the series, Child of Saturn, was a finalist for the Compton Crook Award. It is set in Celydonn, a fictional Celtic realm whose carefully worked out tongue is, in the writer's own words, "not intended to represent any real-world Celtic tongue of dialect" but rather is "an intentionally fanciful combination of Welsh, Irish and pseudo-Celtic elements" resulting from "a pattern pf migrations, intermarriages and inter-tribal cultural exchanges which could have taken place on Ynis Celydonn and nowhere else".
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