any historical personages you wish had fiction composed about them

[Jemidar]

[quote=""annis""]Sorry to disappoint, but "The Cardinal and the Queen" is about Margaret's daughter, Anne of Austria (mother of Louis XIV of France) and Richelieu.[/quote]

Oooops...really wasn't paying attention, was I? Sorry .

[annis]

Did someone mention earlier Henries? Edith Pargeter's "Bloody Field by Shrewsbury" comes to mind - it features both Henry IV and his son Hal (later Henry V), whose title, Prince of Wales, is hotly contended by Welsh prince, Owen Glendower. The real hero, though is Henry IV's friend and later enemy, Henry Percy, known as "Hotspur". I'm sure I saw that this novel is scheduled for reissue, which is good news.

[rockygirl]

[quote=""Andromeda_Organa""]I'd like to see fiction on Eleanor Roosevelt.[/quote]


Elliot Roosevelt (can't remember right now if he was the son or grandson of Eleanor) wrote a series of mysteries with Eleanor as the main character.

The books are available on Amazon.

[LoveHistory]

I'm very curious about Ivar the Boneless.

[annis]

Ivarr the Boneless is mostly to be found in the sagas, but he does make a minor appearance in Bernard Cornwell's Last Kingdom, and is also a character in Harry Harrison's alternate Dark Age series The Hammer and the Cross. It has been postulated that his unusual condition may have been a form of brittle bone disease.

There's an intriguing legend about Ivarr which says he was buried in a mound near the English seashore so that he could act as a Watcher, or guardian spirit. The same legend appears in stories about English King Harold Godwinsson - that his body was spirited away after the Battle of Hastings and buried overlooking the sea so that he could remain a Guardian of England.

[SGM]

Aphra Behn made it to a novel I cannot now identify and which I seem to remember was not very good. But she came over as a rather silly women. I have often thought she deserved better treatment, particularly as some consider she might be the "mother" of the English novel.

I think she gets a brief mention in Trease's Popinjaystairs -- not one of his best.

[Berengaria]

Eleanor is, of course, one of the characters of Jean Plaidy's Hammer of the Scotsbut I would like to see a novel with her as the central personage. She and Edward I had a great love for one another. And, as you know, Edward had crosses set up wherever her funeral procession stopped on its way to London. Then he married again and had children with his second wife, Marguerite. I just think it would be a fascinating time period to read about!

[annis]

Posted by SGM

Aphra Behn made it to a novel I cannot now identify and which I seem to remember was not very good. But she came over as a rather silly women. I have often thought she deserved better treatment, particularly as some consider she might be the "mother" of the English novel.

Aphra Behn makes an appearance in [url=p://www.fidelismorgan.com/pages/writing/fiction/fiction.htm]Fidelis Morgan'[/url]s wickedly funny Countess Ashby de la Zouche historical mystery series. Fidelis Morgan has also written several non-fiction books about 17th century female theatre personalities.

[SGM]

[quote=""annis""]Posted by SGM


Aphra Behn makes an appearance in [url=p://www.fidelismorgan.com/pages/writing/fiction/fiction.htm]Fidelis Morgan'[/url]s wickedly funny Countess Ashby de la Zouche historical mystery series. Fidelis Morgan has also written several non-fiction books about 17th century female theatre personalities.[/quote]

Unfortunately, I am not fond of those books. She did appear in another one -- was it the Vizard Mask? But as I say, she did not appear to advantage whichever one it was and I have long thought her a fascinating woman even if I found Orinoko (sp?) really rather too florid. There was a really interesting discussion about her in one of the In Our Times (Melvyn Bragg).

[rockygirl]

Cornelia, mother of the Gracchi

Grace Coolidge

And I agree with the mentions of Livia and Charlemange.