Josephine Tey
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So if Edward IV ….
“Tudor” propaganda, ballads, Brat Farrar, Captain Mainwaring, Edward IV, Edward Rochester, Elizabeth of York, Elizabeth Wydeville, Henry VII, Huckleberry Hound, Josephine Tey, Kenneth Williams, Manuel, marriage, Oh my darling Clementine, Portuguese marriage plans, Rambling Syd Rumpo, Round the Horne… is either Mr. Rochester or Captain Mainwaring and other characters have been identified, is Henry VII represented in popular culture, other than here? You may recall that he promised to marry Elizabeth of York, OR one of her sisters if she was already taken, which is more about becoming Edward IV’s posthumous son-in-law than is…
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Here is something to cheer. A little article, part of which deals with the truth about Richard III. And yes, Josephine Tey’s “Daughter of Time” gets a long mention too.
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Peter Corris, “the godfather of Australian crime”, has died at the age of 76. His name may not be all that well known to us (well, to me, I confess) but he was clearly a towering force in the literature of his home country. When I received notice of this obituary, it was stated that he…
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Richard III and Robert Cecil (Part II)
anti-Stratfordianism, Battle of Bosworth, Earls of Oxford, Edmund Duke of Somerset, executions, First Battle of St. Albans, historical fiction, Janet Reedman, Joanne Larner, John Tiptoft Earl of Worcester, Josephine Tey, kyphosis, Lord High Constable, Richard III, Robert Cecil, Rosemary Hawley Jarman, scoliosis, Shakespeare, Sharon Kay Penman
In a previous post, we explored the theory that Shakespeare’s Richard III was actually based on the Elizabethan politician, Robert Cecil. Here is another discussion of the subject, Richard III and Robert Cecil, with references to the hypothesis that Shakespeare was actually the 17th Earl of Oxford, a descendant of the previous Earls of Oxford…
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There is a new Ricardian children’s author on the block: Alex Marchant. Alex kindly agreed to an interview: Q: You’ve recently published your first novel about King Richard III for children, The Order of the White Boar. What made you write about King Richard? Alex: I first became interested in King Richard in my teens…
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A fictional police officer lies in a hospital bed and his mind wanders to a historic case. However, it isn’t Inspector Alan Grant and the disappearance of the “Princes”, as related by Tey, but Inspector Morse and the definite murder of Christina Collins. Written in 1989, The Wench is Dead was broadcast on Radio 4…
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Josephine Tey’s novel Brat Farrar is widely perceived as having been based on the Victorian Tichborne case where a well-upholstered Australia-based butcher’s son posed as the missing claimant to a baronetcy. Arthur Orton/ Castro persuaded Roger Tichborne’s mother that he was the heir to the title, but very few others and lost his court cases.…
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The sad events in the immediate aftermath of Bosworth are well known to us all, and are not always illustrated with any kindness to the murdered Richard III, but somehow, this one from the 18th century does him no disservice. He is shown as a young man, not ill-formed, and seems to be carried with reasonable…
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