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(including the other many pseudonyms of Eleanor Hibbert)
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Post by boswellbaxter » Sat October 11th, 2008, 1:33 pm

Old Title: Uneasy Lies the Head.
New Title: To Hold the Crown (Henry VII and Elizabeth of York)

Old Title: William's Wife
New Title: The Queen's Devotion (Mary II)

Old Title: Myself My Enemy
New Title: Loyal in Love (Henrietta Maria)

Old Title: The Pleasures of Love
New Title: The Merry Monarch's Wife (Catherine of Braganza)

Old Titles: The Wandering Prince, A Health Unto His Majesty, and Here Lies Our Sovereign Lord
New Title (3 books in 1): The Loves of Charles II (Charles II)

Old Title: Gay Lord Robert
New Title: Lord Robert (Robert Dudley)

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Post by Ariadne » Sat October 11th, 2008, 4:18 pm

Old Title: St. Thomas's Eve
New Title: The King's Confidante (St. Thomas More and Margaret Roper)

Old Title: Katharine, the Virgin Widow; The Shadow of the Pomegranate; The King's Secret Matter
New Title (3 books in 1): Katharine of Aragon

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new titles, new cover art..

Post by Debra » Tue January 27th, 2009, 12:12 am

Thanks for the alert! I get so frustrated when I buy a book I already own because the pub's decided to rename it or put on a new cover when they release a new edition!! :confused:

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Post by Margaret » Tue January 27th, 2009, 8:06 pm

Thank you, Boswell and Ariadne! I checked my website, and I had a few of these listed separately.

Now, what about Plaidy's 1949 novel Murder Most Royal, about Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard (also titled The King's Pleasure)? Is that the same book as Lady in the Tower, which also deals with Anne Boleyn?

One of the confusing things is that publishers seem to have repackaged Plaidy's novels into series even though she didn't always write them that way. And some of the series overlap, so that I wonder whether a book might be listed in two different series under different titles. For example, there's a "Tudor" series as well as a "Queens of England" series.

Someone has made a great effort to organize these over at Wikipedia, but I am suspicious of the Queens of England series, whose publication dates extend into the 1990s. The last one is dated 1993, the year she died at age 87.
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Post by Ariadne » Tue January 27th, 2009, 8:21 pm

Margaret, figuring out the multiple Plaidy series is especially confusing because she wrote about some well-known characters more than once. Sometimes more than twice.

The novels in the Queens of England series were written as part of a distinct set. All are biographical novels about past queens of England, told in the first person. Lady in the Tower is one of these (and not the same as Murder Most Royal/The King's Pleasure). I believe Wikipedia is correct on the titles and order. Rose Without a Thorn, the final novel, doesn't have as much depth as others she's written.

My copy of Uneasy Lies the Head shows it as being #15 in the Plantagenet Saga, though it was repackaged along with others as part of a (newly titled) "Tudor Saga."

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Post by Margaret » Tue January 27th, 2009, 9:09 pm

Thank you for some much needed clarification, Ariadne!
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Post by annis » Wed January 28th, 2009, 6:22 am

This fan website is very good for series listings, Margaret, though it's no help with the new titles, unfortunately.
http://members.tripod.com/jeanplaidy/id17.htm
Click on any series title link and you'll get synopses of all the books in that series- it's very useful.

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