![]() I’m currently working on a biography of Elizabeth Woodville, who was married to Richard’s brother King Edward IV and who features as an antagonist in The Sunne in Splendour. Eventually, after many years, I wrote my PhD thesis, an academic book, and multiple articles, on influential women during the Wars of the Roses. My poor 9 th grade history teacher had to read a ten-page screed about How Richard III Was Wronged, and my AP English teacher got fifteen pages about how Shakespeare also did Richard III dirty (but, in fairness, at least Shakespeare’s Richard is entertaining). I read every book my local library had about the Wars of the Roses. ![]() I was consumed by this story, and by the history that inspired it. I borrowed the first item that came up, a nine-hundred page onionskin paperback by Sharon Kay Penman titled The Sunne in Splendour. ![]() ![]() The book itself was fine the characters intrigued me enough that, when I was back home in Columbus, I looked up “Wars of the Roses fiction” at the library. ![]() The first is Jean Plaidy’s 1990 novel The Reluctant Queen, which I stumbled upon at age 12. There are two books that I point to for the trajectory of my academic career. ![]()
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