{{short description|1989 novel by Lindsay Clarke}} {{other uses|Chemical Wedding (disambiguation)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
'''''The Chymical Wedding''''' is a 1989 novel by Lindsay Clarke about the intertwined lives of six people in two different eras. Inspired by the life of Mary Anne Atwood, the book includes themes of alchemy, the occult, fate, passion, and obsession.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Clarke |first=Lindsay |url=https://archive.org/details/chymicalwedding00clar |title=The chymical wedding |date=1989 |publisher=New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-0-394-57937-5}}</ref> It won the Whitbread Prize for fiction in 1989.<ref>Liliana Sikorska, "Mapping the Green Man's Territory in Lindsay Clarke's ''The Chymical Wedding''," in: ''The Year's Work in Medievalism'' 15 (2002), ed. Jesse Swan and Richard Utz.</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Rubin |first=Merle |date=1989-12-31 |title=Better Living Through Alchemy : THE CHYMICAL WEDDING by Lindsay Clarke (Alfred A. Knopf: $19.95; 536 pp., 0-394-57937-2) |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-12-31-bk-82-story.html |access-date=2024-12-14 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Hickling |first=Alfred |date=2010-10-29 |title=The Water Theatre by Lindsay Clarke – review |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/oct/30/water-theatre-lindsay-clarke-review |access-date=2024-12-14 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> {{Infobox book | <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Novels or Wikipedia:WikiProject_Books --> | name = The Chymical Wedding | image = File:TheChymicalWedding.jpg | caption = First edition (UK) | author = Lindsay Clarke | country = United Kingdom | language = English | genre = Magical realism, occult | publisher = Jonathan Cape, Ltd. (London) | pub_date = 1989 | media_type = Hardcover | pages = 536 pp (Hardback edition) | isbn = 0-394-57937-2 | dewey = 823.914 dc20 | congress = PR6053.L3295C47 1989 89-45304 | oclc = }}
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