L. Jagi Lamplighter

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L. Jagi Lamplighter
Occupation
  • Writer
  • editor
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater St. John's College
Genres
Spouse John C. Wright
Children4
Website
www.ljagilamplighter.com

L. Jagi Lamplighter is an American children's and fantasy children's writer and editor.

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Personal life

Lamplighter graduated from St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland. She is married to fellow author John C. Wright, and has four children. [1] Lamplighter is a Christian Scientist. [2]

Works

Prospero's Daughter trilogy

Lamplighter's first three published novels form the Prospero's Daughter trilogy, whose narrator Miranda is the daughter of the magician Prospero from Shakespeare's The Tempest. Set in the present day, it portrays Miranda and her siblings attempting to rescue their father from a Hell similar to Dante's Inferno.

The trilogy received favorable starred reviews in Publishers Weekly , [3] [4] [5] which called the third novel "a satisfyingly epic combination of mythology, theology, and Shakespeare" and "intricate, intellectual fantasy at its best". Kirkus Reviews gave the first novel a mixed review, calling the protagonists unpleasant, distant and cold, [6] but was more favorably disposed towards the two other novels. [7] [8] The series has been mentioned in an article in Shakespeare Studies as "exemplifying the lure of reimagining Shakespeare's characters and their lives". [9]

Books of Unexpected Enlightenment

The series follows the adventures of Rachel Griffin, the teenage daughter of an English duke who is attending Roanoke Academy for the Sorcerous Arts, a magic school based vaguely on St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, but set in New York's Hudson Highlands.

The series includes:

Other works

Lamplighter has published several fantasy short stories, including in the Bad Ass Faeries series of anthologies which she co-edits. [10]

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References

  1. Lamplighter, Jagi L. "About" . Retrieved 12 January 2012.
  2. Lamplighter, Jagi L. "Why I am a Christian Scientist" . Retrieved 28 January 2024.
  3. "Prospero Lost". Publishers Weekly. 256 (30): 49. 27 July 2009.
  4. "Prospero in Hell". Publishers Weekly. 257 (23). 14 June 2010.
  5. "Prospero Regained". Publishers Weekly. 258 (28). 11 July 2011.
  6. Prospero Lost . Macmillan. 2009. Retrieved 12 January 2012 via Internet Archive.{{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  7. "Prospero in Hell". Kirkus Reviews. 15 June 2011. Retrieved 12 January 2012.
  8. "Prospero Regained". Kirkus Reviews. 15 July 2011. Retrieved 12 January 2012.
  9. Osborne, Laurie (September 2010). "iShakespeare". Shakespeare Studies. 38: 55. ISBN   9780838642702 . Retrieved 12 January 2012.
  10. Lamplighter, Jagi L. "Works" . Retrieved 25 July 2019.