I haven't posted lately, between reading novels for review, work deadlines, and Christmas, but I do plan to be better once things start to quiet down.
My latest novel wasn't a Plaidy, but Bridge of Sighs by Jane Lane. I've liked Jane Lane's other novels, but I found this one, about James II's wife Mary Beatrice, to be lackluster. I started thinking, "Jean Plaidy could have done better than this." I don't know if Plaidy wrote a novel about Mary Beatrice, but she did write one about James II's daughters, Mary and Anne, called The Haunted Sisters, which I hope will soon be in my hands.
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- I've published two historical novels set in fourteenth-century England and featuring the Despenser family: The Traitor's Wife: A Novel of the Reign of Edward II and Hugh and Bess. My third novel, The Stolen Crown, set during the Wars of the Roses, is narrated by Henry, Duke of Buckingham, and his wife, Katherine Woodville. My fourth novel, The Queen of Last Hopes focuses on Margaret of Anjou, one of the most maligned queens in English history. I am currently working on a novel set in Tudor England. I use this blog to post about history (mostly late medieval and Tudor England), historical fiction, and whatever strikes my fancy from time to time. Thanks for stopping by! The title of this blog, by the way, comes from the song "Evil Woman" by the Electric Light Orchestra. Back when this song was new, I misheard the lyrics as "Medieval Woman."
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4 comments:
Too bad about the Mary Beatrice novel. I recently read a book of Lane's called Sow the Tempest, about Henry's divorce from Catherine of Aragon, and while the writing was decent, I could definately tell right away who Lane thought the "good guys" and the "bad guys" were.
I have a copy of The Haunted Sisters. It's a while since I read it, but I remember I liked it. Sarah Churchill comes over well. There's a sequel, if you like it, called The Queen's Favourite, I think, which covers Anne's reign and the fall of Sarah Churchill and rise of Abigail Hill.
Have you come across any good novels on John Churchill Duke of Marlborough, by the way? He sounds an interesting man.
I believe that Winston Churchill wrote a bit about John Churchill, being one of the latter's descendents. In terms of fiction, though, Susan Holloway Scott has a novel out about Sarah Churchill that's supposed to feature John Churchill quite a bit as well. I haven't read it yet, so I can't tell you about the quality.
Deidre--Jane Lane definitely doesn't make a secret of where her sympathies lie!
Carla, I'll have to look for The Queen's Favorite!
Both--I bought the Scott novel a while back The writing seemed good, but I only read a couple of chapters because I found Sarah Churchill, the narrator, offputting in the way she kept telling the reader how well she had handled a given situation. But maybe that was just her personality that the author was capturing . . .
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