Editing Uffington White Horse (section)

===Literature===
[[Thomas Hughes]], the author of ''[[Tom Brown's Schooldays]]'', who was born in the nearby village of Uffington,<ref>{{cite web |title=Uffington and ''Tom Brown's Schooldays'' |publisher=Tom Brown's School Museum |url=http://www.museum.uffington.net/what-you-can-see/?target=uffington-and-tom-browns-schooldays |access-date=14 June 2017 |archive-date=6 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306025333/http://www.museum.uffington.net/what-you-can-see/?target=uffington-and-tom-browns-schooldays |url-status=dead }}</ref> wrote a book called ''The Scouring of the White Horse''. Published in 1859, and described as "a combined travel book and record of regional history in the guise of a novel, sort of",<ref name=landow/> it recounts the traditional festivities surrounding the periodic renovation of the White Horse.<ref>{{cite book |first=Thomas |last=Hughes |year=1859 |title=The Scouring of the White Horse |quote=...&nbsp;or, the long vacation ramble of a London clerk |publisher=Ticknor and Fields |place=Boston, MA |url=https://archive.org/details/scouringwhiteho00doylgoog}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |first=David Nash |last=Ford |year=2003 |series=The Uffington White Horse, Part&nbsp;3 |title=Scouring and Pastimes |publisher=Royal Berkshire History |url=http://www.berkshirehistory.com/archaeology/white_horse3.html |access-date=14 June 2017}}</ref> In ''[[Idylls of the King]]'', written between 1859 and 1885, [[Alfred, Lord Tennyson|Tennyson]] compares [[King Arthur]]'s removal of certain corrupt judges, who had been installed by his predecessor, Uther, to the way in which "Men weed the White Horse on the Berkshire hills, to keep him bright and clean as heretofore."<ref name=idylls>{{cite wikisource |last=Tennyson |first=Alfred |author-link=Alfred, Lord Tennyson |date=1859–1885 |title=Idylls of the King |wslink= |chapter=Geraint and Enid}}</ref> [[G. K. Chesterton|G.K. Chesterton]] also features the scouring of the White Horse in his [[epic poetry|epic poem]] ''[[The Ballad of the White Horse]]'', published in 1911, a romanticised depiction of the exploits of [[King Alfred the Great]].<ref>{{Gutenberg |no=1719 |author=[[G. K. Chesterton|Chesterton, G.K.]] |year=1911 |name=The Ballad of the White Horse |bullet=none}}</ref>

In modern fiction, [[Rosemary Sutcliff]]'s 1977 children's book ''[[Sun Horse, Moon Horse]]'' tells a fictional story of the Bronze Age creator of the figure,<ref>{{cite web |first=Anne |last=McFadgen |title=Rosemary Sutcliff |publisher=Historical Novels |url=http://www.historicalnovels.info/Rosemary-Sutcliff.html |access-date=14 June 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |first=Anthony |last=Lawton |date=26 March 2014 |title=The Horse People of ''the Eagle of the Ninth'' different from the Horse People (Epidi) of Sun Horse, Moon Horse |website=rosemarysutcliff.com |url=https://rosemarysutcliff.com/2014/03/26/the-horse-people-of-the-eagle-of-the-ninth-different-from-the-horse-people-epidi-of-sun-horse-moon-horse/ |access-date=30 March 2019 |archive-date=30 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190330202525/https://rosemarysutcliff.com/2014/03/26/the-horse-people-of-the-eagle-of-the-ninth-different-from-the-horse-people-epidi-of-sun-horse-moon-horse/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> and the White Horse and nearby Wayland's Smithy feature in a 1920s setting in the Inspector Ian Rutledge mystery/detective novel ''A Pale Horse'' by [[Caroline and Charles Todd|Charles Todd]]; a depiction of the White Horse appears on the book's dust jacket.<ref name=Todd2008>{{cite book |first=Charles |last=Todd |author-link=Caroline and Charles Todd |year=2008 |title=A Pale Horse: An inspector Ian Rutledge mystery |publisher=HarperCollins |isbn=978-0-06-123356-2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IerpsIT06MsC}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=A Pale Horse |publisher=[[Caroline and Charles Todd|Charles Todd]] |type=publisher's promotional site |url=https://charlestodd.com/books/a-pale-horse/ |access-date=30 March 2019}}</ref> Tom Shippey suggests that the horse may have inspired the banner flown by the horsemen of Rohan in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth [[Tolkien's legendarium|legendarium]], which is a white horse upon a green field.<ref name=Shippey2005>{{cite book |last=Shippey |first=Tom |author-link=Tom Shippey |title=[[The Road to Middle-Earth]] |date=2005 |edition=Third |orig-year=1982 |publisher=[[HarperCollins|Grafton (HarperCollins)]] |isbn=978-0261102750}}</ref> The horse is central to the 1978 BBC Television serial ''[[The Moon Stallion]]'' by [[Brian Hayles]],<ref name="Bramwell2009">{{cite book |first=Peter |last=Bramwell|date=31 March 2009 |title=Pagan Themes in Modern Children's Fiction: Green Man, shamanism, Earth mysteries |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan, UK |isbn=978-0-230-23689-9 |page=167 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p-WHDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA199}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Moon Stallion, The (1978) |website=BFI Screenonline (screenonline.org.uk) |url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/1383693/index.html |access-date=30 March 2019}}</ref> who later novelised the series.<ref>{{cite book |first=Brian |last=Hayles |author-link=Brian Hayles |year=1978 |title=The Moon Stallion |publisher=The Book Service Ltd |isbn=0859391345}}</ref> "The horse on the chalk" in [[Terry Pratchett]]'s [[Tiffany Aching]] series is inspired by the Uffington White Horse. Pratchett (who is famous for his sardonic humor) said "By an ''amazing'' coincidence, the horse carved on the chalk in ''[[A Hat Full of Sky]]'' (2004) is remarkably similar to the Uffington White Horse."<ref>{{cite book |last=Pratchett |first=Terry |author-link=Terry Pratchett |year=2004 |title=A Hat Full of Sky |publisher=HarperCollins Publishers Inc |isbn=9780062435279 |pages=280}}</ref> The White Horse is a significant setting, plot point, and symbol in the 2018 novel ''[[Lethal White]]'', the fourth instalment in the [[Cormoran Strike]] detective series,<ref>{{cite book |author=Galbraith, Robert (pseudonym of J.K. Rowling) |author-link=J. K. Rowling |date=18 September 2018 |title=Lethal White |title-link=Lethal White |place=London, UK |publisher=Sphere Books |isbn=978-0751572858}}</ref>{{full citation needed|date=January 2019}} and inspired the 2022 [[A. F. Steadman]] novel ''Skandar and The Unicorn Thief''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.imagininghistory.co.uk/post/annabel-steadman-on-skandar-ancient-burial-mounds-and-why-you-should-never-trust-a-sparkly-unicorn#google_vignette |title=Annabel Steadman on Skandar, ancient burial mounds and why you should never trust a sparkly Unicorn |date=27 April 2023 |website=Imagining History |access-date=13 June 2024}}</ref>