Muriélle

About the Book

I met a Lady Full beautiful, a faery’s child; Her hair was long. She took me to her elfin grot And there we slumbered on the moss.

Excerpted from La Belle Dame sans Merci Keats-1819

Muriélle is about artistic vision and sensual awakening; the story of a young model coming of age while sitting for one of John William Waterhouse’s most popular works of art, La Belle Dame sans Merci, 1893, (front cover) inspired by his model and based on the poem by Keats

About the Author

JAMES KAYE is a retired Research Biologist from the National Park Service who has published widely in science journals. He has a paper in a literary journal on artist John William Waterhouse and his models published jointly with his wife, Cathy. Muriélle, a story of one of his models, is Mr. Kaye’s debut novel.