as theme in the Grail romances is of minor importance until the last works of the cycle, and the emphasis on fertility is "an interpretation which has haunted twentieth-century literature to a degree quite disproportionate to its basis in fact". The book appears in the film Apocalypse Now amongst those kept by the character Kurtz, along with The Golden Bough, these being the two books Eliot cited as his chief inspirations for The Waste Land. While Weston's work on the Grail theme has been derided as fanciful speculation in the years since the publication of From Ritual to Romance (even one-time supporter Roger Sherman Loomis eventually abandoned her hypothesis), her editions of numerous medieval romances have been commended as valuable translations. A biography "In Quest of Jessie Weston" by Janet Grayson appears in Arthurian Literature, Vol. 11 (1992). Works Parzival: A Knightly Epic by Wolfram von Eschenbach (1894) (translator) The Legends of the Wagner Drama: Studies in Mythology (1896) The Legend Of Sir Gawain: studies upon its original scope & significance (1897) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight : Retold in Modern Prose (1898) King Arthur and His Knights: A Survey of Arthurian Romance (1899) Guingamor, Lanval, Tyolet, Bisclaveret: Four Lais Rendered into English Prose (c. 1900) translator, text by Marie De France Morien: a Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose (1901) PDF The Romance Cycle of Charlemagne and his Peers (1901) Sir Cleges, Sir Libeaus Desconus (1902) The Three Days' Tournament (1902) The Legend of Sir Perceval: Studies upon its Origin, Development and Position in the Arthurian Cycle. London, David Nutt (1906). 2 volumes Sir Gawain & the Lady of Lys. London, David Nutt (1907) Old English Carols from the Hill MS. London, David Nutt (1911) (translator) Romance Vision and Satire; English Alliterative Poems of the Fourteenth Century (1912) The Quest for the Holy Grail (1913) The Chief Middle English poets (1914) From Ritual to Romance (1920) The Romance of Perlesvaus (1988) edited by Janet Grayson References External links English folklorists Women folklorists Arthurian scholars 1850 births 1928 deaths Holy Grail 19th-century English writers 19th-century English women writers 19th-century translators 20th-century English writers 20th-century English women writers 20th-century translators