Craik, Helen. Henry of Northumberland. William Lane, 1800, 3 vols.
1: xi
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death | Geoffrey Chaucer | GC
, diplomat and poet, died in London. The date is highly suspect, being based on an inscription of a hundred and fifty years later. Some commentators believe that Chaucer (who had recently rented... |
Literary Setting | Georgette Heyer | 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... |
Literary Setting | Helen Craik | 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. Craik, Helen. Henry of Northumberland. William Lane, 1800, 3 vols. 1: xi |
Textual Features | Henrietta Sykes | Widdrington is an actual village in Northumberland, of which only the tower was still standing until the late nineteenth century. The recent history of the family was Jacobite. In the novel, two sisters suffer fearful... |
Textual Production | Jean Plaidy | 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 |
Textual Production | Georgette Heyer | 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... |
Textual Production | Lucy Toulmin Smith | LTS
, who became Librarian at Manchester College
in Oxford in the same year, edited for the antiquarian Camden Society
a late fourteenth-century text: Expeditions to Prussia and the Holy Land Made by Henry, Earl of Derby (afterwards King Henry IV |
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