Discover the real lives behind the characters in ‘The Importance of Wives’. Explore the fascinating true stories that shaped this captivating novel.
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With The Agincourt King, Mercedes Rochelle has achieved a triumph, creating a nuanced world for possibly the best known of English medieval kings and battles. Rochelle frames the novel with Henry V’s decisive, implacable character as he crushes the Lollard uprising in early 1414. She establishes her English narrator, Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, whose admiration
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I just finished prolific historical novelist, Mercedes Rochelle’s excellent English historical novel, The Usurper King, using the excuse of preparing a guest post for her blog while preparing for my launch. The Usurper King As Henry comes to learn, gaining a crown he did not covet was a mixed blessing. Once won, it was a
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The novel, Lotharingia, Charlemagne’s Heir, recreates the fascinating personalities that shaped Europe at the time of the power struggle between pope and emperor. Mathilde enlists formidable allies—her mother, the Pope himself, and her husband’s feudal overlord, King Heinrich of Germany. Heinrich, she discovers, is another of Charlemagne’s heirs; another force of nature. He defies the
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