Editing Marion Zimmer Bradley (section)

==Child sex abuse allegations==
In 2000, shortly after Bradley's death, author [[Stephen Goldin]], the stepfather of a boy who had been molested by [[Walter Breen]], started a website claiming that Bradley had been fully aware of her husband's crimes and made no effort to report them or protect his victims.<ref name="sff.net">{{cite web |url=http://www.stephengoldin.com/MZB%20Website/Marion%20Zimmer%20Bradle---Timeline.html |title=Marion Zimmer Bradley: In Her Own Words |publisher=Stephen Goldin |access-date=2016-10-21 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160911223846/http://www.stephengoldin.com/MZB%20Website/Marion%20Zimmer%20Bradle---Timeline.html |archive-date=2016-09-11}}</ref> However, Elizabeth Waters, Bradley's secretary, claimed that she was the first one who told Bradley and that Bradley "was extremely upset" at the news.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.xtra.ca/public/Vancouver/For_the_love_of_coins_past_lives_and_boys-2673.aspx |title=For the love of coins, past lives and boys |last=Rothon |first=Robert |date=February 17, 2007 |website=[[Xtra!]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100119075217/http://www.xtra.ca/public/Vancouver/For_the_love_of_coins_past_lives_and_boys-2673.aspx |archive-date=19 January 2010 |access-date=January 19, 2010}}</ref>

In 2014, Moira Greyland, the daughter of Bradley and Breen, accused Bradley of sexual abuse from the age of 3 to 12. In an email to ''[[The Guardian]],'' Greyland said that she had not spoken out before because "I thought that my mother's fans would be angry with me for saying anything against someone who had championed women's rights and made so many of them feel differently about themselves and their lives. I didn't want to hurt anyone she had helped, so I just kept my mouth shut".<ref name="Flood">{{cite news |last=Flood |first=Alison |date=June 27, 2014 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jun/27/sff-community-marion-zimmer-bradley-daughter-accuses-abuse |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=June 27, 2014 |title=SFF community reeling after Marion Zimmer Bradley's daughter accuses her of abuse}}</ref>

Greyland also confirmed Goldin's statements by saying that Bradley was aware of her husband's behavior and chose not to report him.<ref name="sff.net"/> Greyland reported that she was not the only victim and that she was one of the people who reported her father for child molestation, for which he received multiple convictions.<ref name="Flood"/><ref name="Rosenberg">{{cite news |last=Rosenberg |first=Alyssa |date=June 27, 2014 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/act-four/wp/2014/06/27/re-reading-feminist-author-marion-zimmer-bradley-in-the-wake-of-sexual-assault-allegations/ |newspaper=[[Washington Post]] |access-date=June 27, 2014 |title=Re-reading feminist author Marion Zimmer Bradley in the wake of sexual assault allegations}}</ref><ref name="Seidl">{{cite news |last=Seidl |first=Christian |date=June 29, 2014 |url=http://www.bild.de/unterhaltung/leute/schriftstellerin/missbrauchsvorwuerfe-an-avalon-autorin-36588372.bild.html |newspaper=[[Bild]] |access-date=June 29, 2014 |title=Hat die Avalon-Autorin ihre Tochter missbraucht?}}</ref> 

In December 2017, Bradley's daughter published a detailed biography of her mother, including her pedophilia and sexual abuse, in a book entitled ''The Last Closet: The Dark Side of Avalon''.<ref>{{Cite book |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wcI7tgEACAAJ |title=The Last Closet: The Dark Side of Avalon |last=Greyland |first=Moira |date=2017-12-17 |publisher=Castalia House |isbn=9789527065204 |language=en |chapter=Chapter 1: The Closet is Built: My Mother’s Early Life (1930–1949)}}</ref>

Additionally, according to Greyland, Bradley assisted Breen (her husband at the time) in accessing and abusing multiple unrelated young boys, knowing he was a pedophile who was engaging in sexual contact with children as young as eight. Greyland states that Bradley and her live-in female partner (whom Greyland refers to as her step-mother) both admitted to knowledge of the abuse and purposefully avoided investigating, questioning, or notifying any authorities. Bradley was also accused of attempting to adopt a child whom Breen was interested in sexually.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://marionzimmerbradley.com/index.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010824000903/http://marionzimmerbradley.com/index.html |url-status=usurped |archive-date=August 24, 2001 |title=Marion Zimmer Bradley and Child Abus |publisher=marionzimmerbradley.com |access-date=25 July 2020}}</ref>

In response to these allegations, on July 2, 2014, [[Victor Gollancz Ltd]], the publisher of Bradley's digital backlist, began donating all income from the sales of Bradley's e-books to the charity [[Save the Children]].<ref name="SFgateway">{{cite web |date=July 2, 2014 |url=http://blog.sfgateway.com/index.php/marion-zimmer-bradley/ |publisher=[[Victor Gollancz Ltd]] |access-date=July 2, 2014 |title=Marion Zimmer Bradley |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714164724/http://blog.sfgateway.com/index.php/marion-zimmer-bradley/ |archive-date=14 July 2014 |url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Janni Lee Simner]] donated advances and royalties from her two ''Darkover'' short stories and, at the request of her husband, Larry Hammer, payment for his sale to Bradley's magazine, to the American anti-sexual assault organization [[Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network]].<ref name="Simner">{{cite web |date=June 13, 2014 |url=http://simner.com/blog/?p=5775 |publisher=[[Janni Lee Simner]] |access-date=July 10, 2014 |title=On doing a thing I needed to do}}</ref>

A number of science fiction authors have publicly condemned Bradley. Among the first was [[John Scalzi]], who expressed his horror within a day of the allegations being made public.<ref name="Scalzi">{{cite web |date=June 13, 2014 |url=https://twitter.com/scalzi/status/476521186780667904 |publisher=[[John Scalzi]] |access-date=July 11, 2014 |title=This is horrible: Marion Zimmer Bradley's daughter alleges she was molested by her mother.}}</ref> [[Hugo Award]] winner [[Jim C. Hines]] wrote that Bradley's positive effect on her readers and associates "makes the revelations about Marion Zimmer Bradley protecting a known child rapist and molesting her own daughter and others even more tragic."<ref name="hines">{{cite web |date=June 23, 2014 |url=http://www.jimchines.com/2014/06/rape-abuse-and-mzb/ |publisher=[[Jim C. Hines]] |access-date=June 23, 2014 |title=Rape, Abuse, and Marion Zimmer Bradley}}</ref> [[G Willow Wilson]], who, along with Bradley, is a fellow [[World Fantasy Award]] winner, said she was "speechless".<ref name="Wilson">{{cite web |date=June 25, 2014 |url=https://twitter.com/GWillowWilson/status/481643540267556865 |publisher=[[G. Willow Wilson]] |access-date=June 25, 2014 |title=I'm speechless about this news re: Marion Zimmer Bradley. I can forgive artists for falling short of their ideals, but not for CHILD ABUSE.}}</ref> [[Diana L. Paxson]], who collaborated with Bradley on a number of novels and who continued to write novels set in the [[Avalon Series]] after Bradley's death, said that she was "shocked and appalled to read Moira Greyland's posts about her mother... I never personally observed, nor had any reason to suspect, that (Bradley) was abusing either of her children."<ref name="Paxton">{{cite web |date=June 25, 2014 |url=http://diana-paxson.com/writing/avalon/marion-zimmer-bradley/ |publisher=[[Diana L. Paxson]] |access-date=May 26, 2016 |title=Marion Zimmer Bradley |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160428231857/http://diana-paxson.com/writing/avalon/marion-zimmer-bradley/ |archive-date=April 28, 2016 }}</ref>