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| | From:  manxie400 (Original Message) | Sent: 4/9/2008 6:58 PM |
I recently found this author. I had'nt heard of her before. I've read , so far, three of her books. I saw also that she writes under different names. Evidently she passed away awhile back. I had no idea she had written so many books about so many different families. The one book she wrote about Queen Mary was very good I thought. Myself, I have'nt found that many written about her. Her style is so very different than other authors I've read. I'm sure others here have read her work. I'd love to hear any feedback on any of her books. Her real name was Eleanor Hibbert...I've only read her under Jean Plaidy so far. The other name she wrote under was Victoria Holt. She passed away in 1993. In my opinion, she was a truly good author. |
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I really enjoyed "My Enemy The Queen" by Victoria Holt. It is the story of Lettice Knollys, cousin of Elizabeth I, who eventually married the sweet Robin Dudley out from under Elizabeth I. |
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I have fond memories of Jean Plaidy, as her books were my entry into the world of historical fiction! I read the entire library shelf when I was about 10 or 12, and simply fell in love with the Tudor time period. I was also reading Victoria Holt on the side (my grandmother was in Doubleday book club & bought every Holt book that came out! I inherited them all). It wasn't until I read a Philippa Carr book that I saw on the liner notes, that "Philippa Carr is, of course, Jean Plaidy and Victoria Holt".  Simply blew my mind at the number of books she wrote. Another good thing about starting with Jean Plaidy books, is that, in all the books on the Tudor time period I've read since, nothing in a true history (e.g. non-fiction) has contradicted anything I remembered from a Plaidy novel! When you consider the things the writers of that Showtime travesty changed for the sake of the story, it's interesting to note that Jean Plaidy didn't see the need to do such stuff! |
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LOL Just pick up Here Lies Our Sovereign Lord on Charles II so you won't look too wussy as tis about a king after all.....there's also one that was perfectly innocuous back in the day about Robert Dudley that's called Gay Lord Robert if you'd like to try that one  Actually I think you may be limited in selection unless you know of a good used bookshop or get lucky at the library, as the Plaidy Tudor novels seem to have been recently reissued in trade paperback & methinks the rest are sadly out of print at the moment. |
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PS>No, there's BratBoy for sure (one of our AMT charter members so to speak) but he's not been around in yonks & is in fact running away to China at the end of the month.....methinks there's a couple others but alas largely mute  |
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I found about 10 of her books I had never read in a used book store in St Ives, Cornwall about 6 years ago. I belong to a swap book club, where there are a lot of Plaidy/Holt/Carr books listed. The ones I brought back from St. Ives were gone in a day after listed. They were the real hard to find ones in the US. |
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I had not heard of 'The Concubine' or 'The Kings Pleasure'. I thank you for the info. I love hearing about Tudor books I have'nt read yet! Woohoo! |
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They are older books but well worth the read. It's been awhile but I remember enjoying them very much! As always Manxie happy reading! Tudorgalusa |
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The emphasis in Jean Plaidy's novels is mainly on the women in history, queens and king's mistresses mostly, but I wouldn't call them 'slushy' and the historical detail is mostly quite accurate I think. I read them a lot when I was young, I really liked them. My favourite was 'Murder Most Royal' which is about Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard, and I also liked 'Royal Road to Fotheringhay' (Mary Queen of Scots) 'Evergreen Gallant' (Henri IV of France) 'St Thomas's Eve' (Sir Thomas More) 'Here Lies Our Sovereign Lord' (Charles II and Nell Gwynne) 'The Italian Woman' and 'Madame Serpent' (Catherine de Medici) and 'Daughter of Satan' (early settlers in New England). There were loads of others. I've had a look on amazon, and a lot of them are still in print. Louise |
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Too chicken to get a "girly" book? You'll probably enjoy that one, as most novels on Charles II focus on the Restoration period & "Old Rowley's" satyr rep, rather than on what happened after his father's execution how the Restoration came about to begin with. |
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Too many to pick which I liked the best, the one I was reading at the time had to be it! |
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Methinks she seriously wrote well over 100 books .....the kings & queens of England series alone, she went right from William the Conqueror thru Victoria, & that last was a trilogy as I recall. |
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