If you would like to read another novel about Constance of York after digesting Within the Fetterlock, you could try The White Rose of Langley by Emily S Holt which is available through
Project Gutenburg.
I do have to warn you though that Ms Holt is a Victorian writer and her views about the Roman Catholic Church in particular are distinctly non-PC. (If you are wondering, all the 'good' characters are, or become, Lollards.) I should hate anyone to be offended.
It is, nonetheless, an interesting read in parts and you may enjoy comparing and contrasting her interpretation of Constance against mine.
Oddly enough, I can't think of any other novel that focuses on the House of York in its early years, though there are a number written around the Lancaster bunch.
3 comments:
Hi Brian - Welcome to Blogland! Just found your blog via Susan Higginbotham. It looks really interesting and I shall enjoy reading through all the posts you've put on. As a humerous aside - I have taken part in the re-enactment of Bosworth Field (many, many year ago) in full plate armour and it was an awesome (and painful!) experience!
Thanks for posting the link to this! I have the novels she wrote about Piers Gaveston and Hugh le Despenser the younger; they're eccentric, to put it mildly (she even tries to make Hugh the younger a proto-Protestant). But she actually did take pains with her research, although it yields some very strange results.
Thank you folks. As I think I have said, your two blogs were among the three that got me started!
Yep, Emily S Holt definitely did her research, and is one of the few historical novelists to add her notes at the back. But her interpretation work is indeed quite bizarre.
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