King Henry V

Her poem is Miltonic in style, with frequent echoes of Paradise Lost, although written in couplets. Accepting a designation applied to her by ideological enemies, MDF opens by comparing herself to the biblical Deborah...

In this extremely well-populated series, this first Plantagenet led a long procession. Its followers were two novels in 1977, The Revolt of the Eaglets, and The Heart of the Lion (about Richard Coeur de Lion

CY published The Caged Lion (one of her best-known historical novels), about Henry V .

Jaquelina tells a version of historical events. Jacquelina, Countess of Hainault , had made a dynastic marriage when very young, repudiated her husband, and fled to England before, by early 1423, she married Humphry, Duke of Gloucester

The subject of the book is John, Duke of Bedford , Henry V 's younger brother. GH began writing it in 1948 under the encouragement of her husband and of Frere, her editor. The subject...

JP set Epitaph for Three Women, twelfth of her thirteen Plantagenet novels and one of three this year, after Henry V 's death; its three women are his queen Katherine or Catherine of Valois

Owen Tudor, fifteenth-century descendant of a royal and ancient Welsh family, was paternal grandfather of Henry VII . All kinds of romantic stories surround his secret marriage with Catherine de Valois , widow of Henry V

The title-page quotes Virgil . The preface relates how while staying with a friend in the north the author discovered an ancient manuscript, much torn and defaced in a trunk in a garret.

This four-volume novel follows many conventions of romance such as moated castles and beauteous damsels. It begins in 1422, shortly after the death of Henry V , and it...

This novel opens a little earlier than its predecessor, before the death of Henry V , It follows many conventions of romance, though it is not as formulaic as many romances. Jaquelina and the Duke...

GH , not yet entirely identified with the Regency period, sets Simon the Coldheart during the time of Henry IV , and makes her hero an associate of Prince Hal in his campaign on the...

MP 's Catherine is not (like Shakespeare's) Katherine Parr, but is the French-born widow of Henry V , who formed an illicit union in about 1429 with the Welsh prince Owen Tudor , which produced...