The pageant required more than fifty actresses, only three of whom had speaking parts, to portray famous women from history (not all of them remembered today). In the initial, Scala production, the only speaking role...
GF
followed Constance Sherwood in 1867 with A Stormy Life, which fictionalized the life of Margaret of Anjou
and the Wars of the Roses.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2096 (1867): 888
Textual Production
Jean Plaidy
The Plantagenet series concluded with two novels issued in 1982: Red Rose of Anjou, about the now adult Henry VI
and his queen, Margaret of Anjou
, and The Sun in Splendour, about Edward IV
.
Tibbs, Rodney. The University and Colleges of Cambridge. Terence Dalton Ltd., 1972.
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Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
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Olsen, Kirstin. Chronology of Women’s History. Greenwood, 1994.
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Queen’s College Cambridge - Apostrophe. http://www.quns.cam.ac.uk/Queens/Misc/apostrophe.html.
4 March 1461: The Yorkist Edward IV was proclaimed king...
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4 March 1461
The Yorkist Edward IV
was proclaimed king of England following his military victory over the forces of the Lancastrian Henry VI
(who had for years been increasingly withdrawn and clearly incapable of personal rule).
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
29 March 1461: In a climactic and singularly unchivalric...
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29 March 1461
In a climactic and singularly unchivalric battle of the Wars of the Roses, fought on Palm Sunday at Towton in North Yorkshire, about 28,000 men died and Edward IV
's position as king was confirmed.
Boylston, Anthea. “The Towton Mass Grave Project”. University of Bradford, Department of Archaeological Sciences, 22 May 2003.