Posted in Book Review, tagged England, fiction, mystery on August 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Who’s who and what’s what?
Justine Picardie’s Daphne is a fictionalized/biographical/literary mystery centering, ostensibly, upon one question: what became of Emily Bronte’s notebook of poems that disappeared from the Bronte Society’s collections in the mid 20th century? After a few chapters, the reader can guess what happened to the priceless manuscript. What is more [...]
Posted in Book Review, History, tagged England, medieval on August 18, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Jane, Anne, Jane, Anne, and Catherine
Julia Fox has made an admirable job of piecing together a biography of this woman, lady in waiting to 4 of Henry VIII’s ill fated queens. As wife and widow to Anne Boleyn’s brother, George, Lord Rochford, Jane was a firsthand witness to the madness that swirled around [...]
