Medieval knights are one of those things where the fiction outweighs the facts. Knights served as a part of the […] ...

Kristy Ambrose has been writing professionally since 2010. She dabbles in various genres, but her favorites are fantasy and science fiction. She creates everything from fanfiction to serialized novels ...

From Rapunzel trapped up in her tower to legions of scream queens hitting high decibels, the damsel in distress trope is long rooted in sweet, helpless characters incapable of staying out of trouble.

Whit Stillman's whimsical campus comedy "Damsels in Distress" is an utter delight. Among their other projects (Violet’s lifelong ambition is to invent a new dance craze) and philanthropic enterprises, ...

From medieval damsel in distress to modern dame about town? What a stark contrast. Sophie Turner, who plays the corseted Sansa on “Game of Thrones,” is now modeling for U.K. clothing retailer Karen ...

Layann Basileh is an Arab-American writer based in Southern California, currently nursing an iced coffee addiction. The 'damsel in distress' trope is a common female character archetype, in which a ...