Editing Eleanor of Aquitaine (section)

=== Fiction and poetry ===

Fictionalised accounts of Eleanor include [[Jean Plaidy]]'s 1987 autobiographical ''The Courts of Love''.{{sfn|Plaidy|1987}} [[Norah Lofts]] also wrote a fictionalized biography of her in 1955, including some romanticized episodes—starting off with the young Eleanor planning to elope with a young knight, who is killed out of hand by her guardian, in order to facilitate her marriage to the King's son.{{sfn|Lofts|2010}} [[Kristiana Gregory]] wrote a fictionalised diary, ''Eleanor: Crown Jewel of Aquitaine'' (''[[The Royal Diaries]]'' series, 2002).{{sfn|Gregory|2002}}

Eleanor also features in the works of many historical novelists. These include ''[[The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood]]'' (1883) by [[Howard Pyle]] as Queen Catherine{{sfn|Pyle|2013}} and [[Francis Marion Crawford|F. Marion Crawford]]'s novel of the second crusade ''Via Crucis'' (1899).{{sfn|Crawford|2010}}{{sfn|Siberry|2016}} She is the subject of ''A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver'', a 1973 children's novel by [[E. L. Konigsburg]].{{sfn|Konigsburg|1973}} and [[Margaret Ball (writer)|Margaret Ball]]'s ''Duchess of Aquitaine'' (2006).{{sfn|Ball|2006}}

In [[Sharon Kay Penman]]'s Plantagenet novels, she figures prominently in ''[[When Christ and His Saints Slept]]'' (1995), ''[[Time and Chance (Penman novel)|Time and Chance]]'' (2002), and ''[[Devil's Brood]]'' (2008). In Penman's historical Justin de Quincy mysteries, Eleanor, as Richard's regent, sends squire Justin de Quincy on various missions, often an investigation of a situation involving Prince John. The four published mysteries are the ''Queen's Man'' (1996), ''Cruel as the Grave'' (1998), ''Dragon's Lair'' (2003), and ''Prince of Darkness'' (2005).{{sfn|Penman|2011}} Other novels include [[Elizabeth Chadwick]]'s Eleanor trilogy ''The Summer Queen'' (2013), ''The Winter Crown'' (2014), and ''The Autumn Throne'' (2016).{{sfn|Chadwick|2021}} [[Ariana Franklin]] features Eleanor in her Adelia Aguilar twelfth-century mysteries.{{sfn|Penguin|2009}}{{sfn|Penrith|2022}}{{sfn|McDermott|2021}} She is also a character in ''[[Matrix (Groff novel)|Matrix]]'' by [[Lauren Groff]] (2021).{{sfn|Groff|2021}}

Eleanor is also an allegorical figure in [[Ezra Pound]]'s ''[[The Cantos|Cantos]]''.{{sfn|Terrell|1993}}