JP
followed this Tudor novel with another involving Henry VIII
, this time The Sixth Wife, published in 1953, about Katherine Parr
, who married Henry in 1543 (ten years after Anne Boleyn had...
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Norah Lofts
NL
published another historical work, The Concubine: A Novel Based Upon the Life of Anne Boleyn
, Henry VIII
's Second Wife.
Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research, 1981–2025, Numerous volumes.
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Jean Plaidy
In the following year, 1952, and under the same pseudonym, JP
shifted her historical lens for the novel Daughter of Satan, which examines the persecution of witches and Puritans
in the 16th and 17th...
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Norah Lofts
Catherine had been replaced in the affections and the dynastic ambitions of Henry VIII
by Anne Boleyn, subject of NL
's 1963 historical novel.
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Rosemary Sutcliff
The two or three that followed included The Armourer's House, set in the reign of Henry VIII
, 1951, and Brother Dusty-Feet, 1952, in which a boy and his dog run away to...
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Charlotte McCarthy
Following chapters Of Hell, and Judgment and Of the Soul, and Temptation, she laments a growth in sectarianism and decline in good works. In Of the Romish Religion, she criticizes Catholic beliefs and...
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Rose Hickman
RH
situates her own story within that of her family, and sets the family story in the context of the clash between the reformed and traditional systems of Christianity. She opens with Of My Father...
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Elizabeth Cary Viscountess Falkland
The play is a Senecan tragedy, written for the closet, not the public stage, though it is worth remembering that upper-class circles reading or performing such plays were connoisseurs of the highly dramatised masque...