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By: Rickey Emmerich

Rickey Emmerich — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 20:20:26 +0000

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By: Britt

Britt — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:56:28 +0000

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By: rach

rach — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:08:00 +0000

i read once [pre-internet], that when charles windsor was crown prince of wales, there was a personal published in a english paper, a rememberance for david, the last true prince of wales. i’ve never been able to find a mention of it on the internet but i like to think that it was true

LL Thom, Owain Glyndwr appears in one of susan cooper’s the dark is rising novels - it’s kids stuff, but it’s great kid’s stuff.

thanks for everything, sharon, just bought devil’s brood the other week - cried again.

By: LL Thom

LL Thom — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 08:39:39 +0000

It’s good advice to steer clear of Martha Rofheart’s novels on Henry V and Owain Glyndwr. Save your time and treat yourself to A(nne) M(argery) Maughan’s charming “Harry of Monmouth” and John Cowper Powys’ strange and beautiful “Owen Glendower”. (You can spend the time you’d otherwise waste on Rofheart by speculating how on earth Powys managed to get all that kinky sex past censors in 1940.)

Incidentally, the Wikipedia entry on Rofheart’s plagiarism of A.M. Maughan’s Harry of Monmouth was excised in September by one “Evananda”, who stated that it was an “unsupported claim that was not attributed”. (”Evananda”appears to be the screen name of Rofheart’s son, who is some kind of psychic healer.) But one has only to compare the two novels to find that Rofheart did, indeed, plagiarize large chunks of Maughan’s “Harry of Monmouth”, too — and, for the record, H.F. Hutchinson’s Henry V.

On second thought, maybe one should read Rofheart’s two novels. Plagiarism and general silliness aside, they achieve one thing. They give one a greater appreciation of the work of writers like Cecelia Holland, Rosemary Hawley Jarman, Edith Pargeter, Sharon Kay Penman…

I’m looking forward to Sharon’s novel on Owain Glyndwr. I don’t think he’s been in a novel since Jarman’s “Crown in Candlelight” or Edith Pargeter’s excellent “A Bloody Field by Shrewsbury”.

By: Elizabeth Chadwick

Elizabeth Chadwick — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 10:59:49 +0000

Ken, thanks for the sad news about Margaret Wade Labarge. I agree with Sharon about her book on the 13thC household. My version is called Mistress, Maids and Men: Baronial Life in the thirteenth Century.
I confess that when I was much, much younger, I really enjoyed Martha Rofheart’s books. I have a review noted somewhere in an old reading diary - must be late 1970’s and I think the book was called Cry God For Harry. Back then the inaccuracies wouldn’t have jarred and I wouldn’t have known about the plagiarism. Awareness certainly changes ones perceptions!

By: Ken

Ken — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:25:52 +0000

Hi, Sharon,

Just to let you know, if you have stopped looking at my paper on ‘Clemence’, that I have answered a question by Marilyn in it and have also addressed your position (in a message to me) that Gwenllian, Llywelyn ab Iorwerth’s daughter, was not Joanna’s, but almost certainly Tangwystyl’s.

I agree with you!

By: Kristen Elizabeth

Kristen Elizabeth — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:45:43 +0000

HI Sharon. Thanks for another fascinating blog entry! And thanks, too, to Ken, for sharing his wonderful reasearch with us! I suppose I should put that under the blog entry especially for him!

I find it really interesting to learn what things in literature emotionally affect people. I do not cry easily AT ALL, but I confess I sobbed when Simon de Montfort died. I also cried once when I killed one of my characters in my own writing. For me, literature affects me a lot more easily than film or TV for some reason.

OT, but I was stoked because I was in England a couple weeks ago, and I was able to totally stock up on a ton of Elizabeth Chadwick’s books that I was having a hard time tracking down at home. Score!

Anyway, I hope you all have a great day!