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Royalty in Fiction
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June 2004
Compiled by Debra Cernieux,
South Huntington Public Library, Huntington Station, NY, from contributions by the members of Fiction_L.
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Here is a website about Elizabeth I in Print:
http://historymedren.about.com/library/who/blwweliztxtfic.htm
Authors that write about royalty:
Margaret Campbell Barnes
Fiona Buckley (books featuring Elizabeth I)
Margaret Butler's Henry II trilogy
P.F. Chisholm
Kathy Lynn Emerson
Karen Harper
Edward Marston
Robin Maxwell
Robin Paige (Bill Crider and Susan Wittig Albert)
Jean Plaidy
Here are authors and titles:
Valerie Anand KING OF THE WOOD
Evelyn Anthony ANNE BOLEYN
Pamela Bennett DEATH OF THE RED KING
Elizatbeth Chadwick THE WILD HUNT
(That's the British Chadwick, not the American one.)
Patricia Finney FIREDRAKE'S EYE; UNICORN'S BLOOD
George Garrett THE SUCCESSION
Margaret George THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF HENRY VIII
Denise Giardina GOOD KING HARRY
(published in 1984 and, lamentably, out of print. Great fictional treatment of the life of King Henry V)
James Goldman THE LION IN WINTER; MYSELF ASWITNESS
Molly Haycraft MY LORD BROTHER THE LIONHEART
Kim Headlee DAWNFLIGHT (another go-round with Arthur & Guinevere....)
Georgette Heyer MY LORD JOHN
Victoria Holt MY ENEMY
Anthony Hope THE PRISONER OF ZENDA; RUPERT OF HENTZAU (the old "commoner takes the place of royal double" schtick)
Rosemary Jarman THE KING'S GREY MARE
Susan Kay LEGACY
Mercedes Lackey THIS SCEPTER'D ISLE (fantasy retelling of Henry VIII's illegitimate son's life. Elizabeth is an important, albeit minor, character.)
Edith Layton THE CRIMSON CROWN
Peter Lefcourt DI AND I (This is the description from Novelist: In a humorous novel about modern romance, the Princess of Wales falls in love with a Hollywood screenwriter and runs away to McDonald's, with Prince Charles in hot pursuit)
Norah Lofts ELEANOR THE QUEEN; THE KING'S PLEASURE
Mary LukeTHE IVY CROWN
Charles Major WHEN KNIGHTHOOD WAS IN FLOWER
Paul Mann THE BRITANNIA CONTRACT
Evelyn Mayerson PRINCESS IN AMBER
Rosalind Miles I, ELIZABETH
Hope Muntz THE GOLDEN WARRIOR
Edith Pargeter THE BLOODY FIELD
Sharon Kay Penman CRUEL AS THE GRAVE; THE SUNNE IN SPLENDOUR (Richard III); THE QUEEN'S MEN
Elizabeth Peters LEGEND IN GREEN VELVET; MURDERS OF RICHARD III
Martha Rofheart LIONHEART
Sir Walter Scott IVANHOE; KENILWORTH; QUENTIN DURWARD; THE TALISMAN
Kate Sedley THE HOLY INNOCENTS; THE WEAVER's TAKE
Anya Seton KATHERINE
Josephine Tey THE DAUGHTER OF TIME, in which the detective tries to solve the mystery of the deaths of the 2 young princes.
Elswyth Thane QUEEN'S FOLLY (Begins in the Elizabethan era and winds it way to the 20th Century.)
Sue Townsend THE QUEEN AND I (a funny novel about what would happen if the royal family had to live like everyone else)
Mark Twain THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER
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