Faculty of Design

Illustration

Rebecca Michie

Tam Lin

Illustration
2021
Tam Lin (Child Ballad #39) by Anaïs Mitchell tells the story of a woman who falls in love with a cursed fairy. She must claim him and hold him while the queen of fairies transforms him into a lion, a bear and a wolf. Finally, “He changed all in her arms into a naked man. She’s wrapped him in her coat so warm, and she has brought him home.”

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7. Tam Lin
7. Tam Lin

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Rebecca Michie

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“The Ramblin' Women re-imagines the stories of the women portrayed in folk ballads of old. By retelling their sometimes subtle, sometimes fatal (yet nonetheless pivotal) moments of agency, these...” [More]