Favorite Historical Fiction Authors
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I second this. Unfortunately, some of her works (especially under her other pseudonyms) are out of print and when they show up online they are really expensive, to the tune of several hundred dollars at least!Sheenah684 wrote: ↑19 Apr 2018, 14:48 Jean Plaidy is a great writer focusing on the British monarchy. She was quite prolific and I've enjoyed any book of hers that I picked up.
I really recommend reading Plaidy in chronological order, even if some of the books show their age more than others, e.g. how William Rufus is portrayed versus how Edward II is portrayed.
Some of her work is even more interesting if you know the history of the topic and the historiography a bit.
For example, she wrote The Reluctant Queen about Anne Neville and Richard III where Richard had a raised shoulder, not a hunchback. The idea of Richard as a hunchback still showed up in history books for years. The discovery and analysis of his skeleton in 2012 revealed he had scoliosis, which would have made his shoulders uneven, especially as he got older.
An example of the opposite circumstance - where her writing doesn't reflect more recent research - is in my personal favorite of her works, The Prince and the Quakeress about George III and Hannah Lightfoot. There was a story/legend about his treatment of Quakers that ended up resulting in a story he was married to a female Quaker named Hannah Lightfoot when he was Prince of Wales. She's not really present in the historical record and his own behavior until he was ill seems to make a relationship like that unlikely, but the sources she used did discuss the possibility.
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