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=== Robin McKinley's other works provide examples of: ===
=== Robin McKinley's other works provide examples of: ===
* [[All Girls Like Ponies|All Girls Like Ponies (and/or dogs or dragons)]] - almost all of her protagonists (even the one boy) have a horse, dog, or exotic animal as a best friend.
* [[All Girls Like Ponies|All Girls Like Ponies (and/or dogs or dragons)]] - almost all of her protagonists (even the one boy) have a horse, dog, or exotic animal as a best friend.
* [[Author Appeal]]: [[May December Romance]].
* [[Author Appeal]]: [[May-December Romance]].
* [[Bee Bee Gun]]: ''Chalice''.
* [[Bee Bee Gun]]: ''Chalice''.
* [[Bond Creatures]]: ''Pegasus'' - For the human Royal family and the pegasus Royal family, each pegasus and each human have ''each other'' as a bond creature.
* [[Bond Creatures]]: ''Pegasus'' - For the human Royal family and the pegasus Royal family, each pegasus and each human have ''each other'' as a bond creature.
* [[Contrived Clumsiness]]: In ''Chalice'', one of the primary antagonists uses a very malicious form of fake clumsiness to set the demesne's Master up for a [[Mortons Fork]]: he "trips" within the Master's reach, forcing the Master - a former priest of elemental fire - to choose between catching and involuntarily burning him (an insult) or letting him fall (also an insult).
* [[Contrived Clumsiness]]: In ''Chalice'', one of the primary antagonists uses a very malicious form of fake clumsiness to set the demesne's Master up for a [[Morton's Fork]]: he "trips" within the Master's reach, forcing the Master - a former priest of elemental fire - to choose between catching and involuntarily burning him (an insult) or letting him fall (also an insult).
* [[Cool Horse]] - ALL of them, but pegasi especially.
* [[Cool Horse]] - ALL of them, but pegasi especially.
* [[Death By Childbirth]]: Several instances, including ''[[Beauty a Retelling of Beauty And The Beast|Beauty]]'' and "[[The Twelve Dancing Princesses (Literature)|The Twelve Dancing Princesses]]" in ''The Door in the Hedge''.
* [[Death By Childbirth]]: Several instances, including ''[[Beauty a Retelling of Beauty And The Beast|Beauty]]'' and "[[The Twelve Dancing Princesses (Literature)|The Twelve Dancing Princesses]]" in ''The Door in the Hedge''.
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* [[Easing Into the Adventure]]: Common in her works. ''[[The Blue Sword]],'' for example, begins with Harry's efforts at adjusting to life on the desert frontier of the Homelander Empire.
* [[Easing Into the Adventure]]: Common in her works. ''[[The Blue Sword]],'' for example, begins with Harry's efforts at adjusting to life on the desert frontier of the Homelander Empire.
* [[Elemental Powers]]: In ''Chalice'', the new Master is a priest of Elemental Fire and can not only [[Playing With Fire|control that element]], he's partly composed of it.
* [[Elemental Powers]]: In ''Chalice'', the new Master is a priest of Elemental Fire and can not only [[Playing With Fire|control that element]], he's partly composed of it.
* [[Evil Detecting Dog]]: In short story, "Hellhound".
* [[Evil-Detecting Dog]]: In short story, "Hellhound".
* [[Fisher King]]: ''Chalice'', in which each demesne has not only a [[Fisher King]] Master, but an entire Fisher ''Court''. <ref> If you're curious, the Fisher Court has twelve members: Master, Chalice, Grand Seneschal, Prelate, and the "minor circle" composed of the Clearseer, Keepfast, Landsman, Oakstaff, Sunbrightener, Talisman, Weatheraugur, and (presumably) an eighth member whose title isn't mentioned anywhere in the book.</ref>
* [[Fisher King]]: ''Chalice'', in which each demesne has not only a [[Fisher King]] Master, but an entire Fisher ''Court''. <ref> If you're curious, the Fisher Court has twelve members: Master, Chalice, Grand Seneschal, Prelate, and the "minor circle" composed of the Clearseer, Keepfast, Landsman, Oakstaff, Sunbrightener, Talisman, Weatheraugur, and (presumably) an eighth member whose title isn't mentioned anywhere in the book.</ref>
* [[Goo Goo Godlike]]: "Baby Magic" in ''Spindle's End''.
* [[Goo Goo Godlike]]: "Baby Magic" in ''Spindle's End''.
* [[Hormone Addled Teenager]]: Tends to avert this. Many of her female characters are teenagers/young adults, but the idea of romance is usually an afterthought.
* [[Hormone-Addled Teenager]]: Tends to avert this. Many of her female characters are teenagers/young adults, but the idea of romance is usually an afterthought.
* [[May December Romance]]: A common element; see [[Author Appeal]].
* [[May-December Romance]]: A common element; see [[Author Appeal]].
* [[Mayfly December Romance]]: ''Sunshine'', sort of. See also ''[[The Hero and The Crown]]''.
* [[Mayfly-December Romance]]: ''Sunshine'', sort of. See also ''[[The Hero and The Crown]]''.
* [[Mortons Fork]]: ''Chalice''.
* [[Morton's Fork]]: ''Chalice''.
* [[Never Was This Universe]]: ''Sunshine'' and ''Dragonhaven''.
* [[Never Was This Universe]]: ''Sunshine'' and ''Dragonhaven''.
* [[Our Dragons Are Different]]: ''Dragonhaven''.
* [[Our Dragons Are Different]]: ''Dragonhaven''.
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* [[Sweet Polly Oliver]]: Beauty's sister Lionheart in ''[[Rose Daughter]]''; someone ends up [[Sweet On Polly Oliver]].
* [[Sweet Polly Oliver]]: Beauty's sister Lionheart in ''[[Rose Daughter]]''; someone ends up [[Sweet On Polly Oliver]].
* [[Tell Me About My Father|Tell Me About My Mother]]: Beauty in ''[[Rose Daughter]]'', Aerin in ''[[The Hero and The Crown]]''.
* [[Tell Me About My Father|Tell Me About My Mother]]: Beauty in ''[[Rose Daughter]]'', Aerin in ''[[The Hero and The Crown]]''.
* [[Twice Told Tale]]: ''[[Beauty a Retelling of Beauty And The Beast|Beauty]]'' (and ''[[Rose Daughter]]''), ''[[Deerskin (Literature)|Deerskin]]'', ''[[The Outlaws of Sherwood]]'', ''Spindle's End''. ''The Door in the Hedge'' is likewise a collection of retold fairy tales, including "The Twelve Dancing Princesses," "The Golden Hind," and "The Frog Prince".
* [[Twice-Told Tale]]: ''[[Beauty a Retelling of Beauty And The Beast|Beauty]]'' (and ''[[Rose Daughter]]''), ''[[Deerskin (Literature)|Deerskin]]'', ''[[The Outlaws of Sherwood]]'', ''Spindle's End''. ''The Door in the Hedge'' is likewise a collection of retold fairy tales, including "The Twelve Dancing Princesses," "The Golden Hind," and "The Frog Prince".
* [[What a Piece of Junk]]: The ponies in ''Chalice'' are pretty [[The Alleged Steed|alleged]] by [[The Blue Sword|Damarian]] standards (the Master's older brother certainly seemed to think so), until you realize that while they may be slow and fat, Ponty is very calm around dangerous things (read: bees and fire), and Gallant and Ironfoot have impressive amounts of endurance, and that this is ''exactly'' what the protagonists need them to be.
* [[What a Piece of Junk]]: The ponies in ''Chalice'' are pretty [[The Alleged Steed|alleged]] by [[The Blue Sword|Damarian]] standards (the Master's older brother certainly seemed to think so), until you realize that while they may be slow and fat, Ponty is very calm around dangerous things (read: bees and fire), and Gallant and Ironfoot have impressive amounts of endurance, and that this is ''exactly'' what the protagonists need them to be.
* [[When She Smiles]]: Appears in one of the short stories in ''Water: Tales of the Elemental Spirits''.
* [[When She Smiles]]: Appears in one of the short stories in ''Water: Tales of the Elemental Spirits''.
* [[Wife Husbandry]]: "Touk's House" in ''A Knot in the Grain''. A couple of the other [[May December Romance|May December Romances]] scattered around her works may also count.
* [[Wife Husbandry]]: "Touk's House" in ''A Knot in the Grain''. A couple of the other [[May-December Romance|May December Romances]] scattered around her works may also count.
* [[Wizards Live Longer]]: Various works, including ''Sunshine'' and Luthe in ''[[The Hero and The Crown]]'' et al.
* [[Wizards Live Longer]]: Various works, including ''Sunshine'' and Luthe in ''[[The Hero and The Crown]]'' et al.
* [[Wound That Will Not Heal]]: ''Sunshine'', ''Chalice''.
* [[Wound That Will Not Heal]]: ''Sunshine'', ''Chalice''.

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Robin McKinley is an American fantasy author, whose works often have active female heroes.

She has written two novels and a number of short stories in the world of Damar. The Blue Sword was a Newbery Honor book and The Hero and The Crown won a Newbery Medal.

She has written several novels retelling folk tales, including Robin Hood (The Outlaws of Sherwood), Sleeping Beauty (Spindle's End), Donkeyskin (Deerskin), and two different retellings of Beauty and The Beast written 20 years apart (Beauty and Rose Daughter).

Works by Robin McKinley with their own trope page include:

Robin McKinley's other works provide examples of:

  1. ↑ If you're curious, the Fisher Court has twelve members: Master, Chalice, Grand Seneschal, Prelate, and the "minor circle" composed of the Clearseer, Keepfast, Landsman, Oakstaff, Sunbrightener, Talisman, Weatheraugur, and (presumably) an eighth member whose title isn't mentioned anywhere in the book.
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