page_title: Albion (Blake)
section_title: Children
hierarchical_section_title: Albion (Blake) / Children
caption_attribution_description: English: Jerusalem The Emanation of The Giant Albion, object 81-detail
context_page_description: In the mythology of William Blake, Albion is the primeval man whose fall and division results in the Four Zoas: Urizen, Tharmas, Luvah/Orc and Urthona/Los. The name derives from the ancient and mythological name of Britain, Albion.
context_section_description: The Sons of Albion feature in the poem Jerusalem. They are 12, and are named as Hand, Hyle, Coban, Guantok, Peachey, Brereton, Slayd, Hutton, Scofield, Kox, Kotope, Bowen. These names are mostly drawn from figures from Blake's 1803 sedition trial.
  The Daughters of Albion feature in Visions of the Daughters of Albion, and other prophetic books. They are named, not consistently though, in The Four Zoas and in Jerusalem:
  Gwendolen
  Ragan
  Sabrina
  Gonorill
  Mehetabel
  Cordella
  Boadicea/Gwiniverra
  Conwenna
  Estrild
  Gwinefrid
  Ignoge
  Cambel.
  Gwiniverra has replaced Boadicea, who is later equated with Cambel.  They are mostly drawn from Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae and John Milton's The History of Britain.
caption: 12 Daughters of Albion; in front Gwendolen (left) and Cambel (right).  Jerusalem? Plate 81 (detail)
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