The Robber Bridegroom
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| Author | Eudora Welty |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Novel |
| Publisher | Doubleday, Doran (USA) & The Bodley Head (UK) |
| Released | 1942 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 185 pp |
| ISBN | NA |
- For the Grimm fairy tale of this title, see The Robber Bridegroom. For the musical adaptation, see The Robber Bridegroom.
The Robber Bridegroom is a 1942 novella by Eudora Welty.
Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
The story, based on the Grimm fairy tale The Robber Bridegroom, is a Southern folk tale set in Mississippi. At the opening of the novella, the legendary Mike Fink meets gentleman robber Jamie Lockhart, and Lockhart comes out on top. The story follows Clement Musgrove back to his home on the Natchez Trace, where he lives with his daughter, Rosamund, and second wife, Salome. Lockhart kidnaps Rosamund, and the two quickly fall in love.
Spoilers end here.
The novel utilizes aspects of the Cupid and Psyche myth. It was adapted by Alfred Uhry and Robert Waldman into a musical of the same name in the early 1970s.
