book review
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The link below is to a review of Mike Pitts ‘Digging for Richard III – the Search for the Lost King’. I confess up front to not having read the book itself, and my reason is simple. The review tells me how Richard himself is referred to in the book. The usual Shakespearean invention. I…
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Eleanor again
attainder, bigamy, book review, Chapuys, cover-up, denialists, dental evidence, Edward IV, Elizabeth Woodville, evidence, George Buck, George Duke of Clarence, illegitimacy, John Ashdown-Hill, Lady Eleanor Talbot, Lady Elizabeth Talbot, Lancastrians, Norwich, paperbacks, pre-contract, Richard III, Robert Stillington, Thomas More, Titulus Regius, William CatesbyJohn Ashdown-Hill’s Eleanor, the Secret Queen was first published in 2009, detailing Lady Eleanor Talbot’s family and early life, the circumstances in which she married Edward IV, her similarities to his mistress Elizabeth Woodville (they were dark haired, older and widows of Lancastrian-inclined men), canon law and how it affected Edward’s relationships and children together…
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Here is a link to double reviews of books that are both entitled Sun(ne) in Splendour – Jean Plaidy’s and Sharon Kay Penman’s. http://www.encorepub.com/carpe-librum-richard-iii-takes-center-stage-again/ Both works are too well known to Ricardians for any explanation to be needed, so I will confine myself to bewailing Plaidy’s abominable cover. How could any publisher impose such a…
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A 1950’s Kids’ Book with a Different View
“Tudor” Despotism, book review, C.W. Aime, Caroline Halsted, children’s history, Clements Markham, de heretico comburendo, E. Nesbit, Edmund of Rutland, Edward IV, Edward of Lancaster, Edward V, George Buck, Henry VI, Josephine Tey, Lollards, Margaret of Abjou, Paul Murray Kendall, pilgrimage, Richard Duke of York, Richard III, Shakespeare, traditions, WakefieldWe tend to think of anything relating to Richard III prior to the last forty years to be biased towards traditional views, with the exceptions of Josephine Tey’s novel, Paul Murray Kendall’s biography, a few other novels like Patrick Carlton’s Under the Hog, and the early ‘defenders’ such as Buck, Markham and Halsted. Children’s books…
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This lady turned me into a Ricardian. Single-handedly. The Daughter of Time is a wonderful book that is still changing people’s lives today. Richard owes her a lot for rescuing him from the outer reaches of Shakespearean bias. I shall definitely be reading this new biography of her: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/josephine-tey-a-life-by-morag-henderson-review-entertaining/
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We hope this book, which explores the spiritual aspect of Richard’s physical rediscovery, is self-explanatory: Something quite different, this book gives both details of Richard’s history with a nod towards the religious belief of the time. It also delves quite deeply into medieval mysticism, which we know was favoured by the King’s mother, Cecily Neville.…
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KING’S GAMES: A MEMOIR OF RICHARD III
Anne Neville, Battle of Bosworth, book review, Cecily Duchess of York, character, Earl of Northumberland, Edmund of Rutland, Edward IV, Francis Lovell, George Duke of Clarence, Henry of Buckingham, Henry VII, historical fiction, Isobel Neville, Josephine Tey, King’s Games, Minster Lovell, Nance Crawford, Paul Murray Kendall, Richard III, Shakespeare, Sir William Stanley, Stoke Field, Thomas Lord StanleyA Verse Play in Two Acts with Commentaries By Nance Crawford “The play’s the thing wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king” (Hamlet) To be honest, I am not much taken with modern Ricardian fiction. I think that in the last five centuries too much fiction and too little fact has been written about…
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My Ricardian Bulletin arrived this morning with a very kind nice review of The Wars of the Roses to brighten my Saturday morning. http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1445646358
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I have recently perused the critical pages (180-191) of Michael Hicks’ latest work: “The Family of Richard III”, relating to the evidence of the remains found in the former Greyfriars. He states that the mitochondrial DNA evidence only shows that the remains are of an individual related to Richard III. He doesn’t admit that the…
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