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273:'s most trusted brother, lived during the entirety of her selected time period, and "was a great man" little known today. In her novel, Heyer describes John as possessing the "best temper of all his family, and the greatest talent for peacemaking." Rougier stated that the perfectionist Heyer prepared for the trilogy by embarking on holistic research that covered "every aspect of the period," including its wars, social conditions, and heraldry. Heyer learned to read
250:'s peak of power, between 1393 and 1435. In 1950, Heyer began working on what she called "the magnum opus of my latter years", a medieval trilogy intended to cover the House of Lancaster during that period. She estimated that she would need five years to complete this project. Her impatient readers continually clamoured for new books, however; to satisfy them and her tax liabilities, Heyer interrupted herself to write Regency romances, such as
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banishment is converted to life, though his sons remain in the country. In the wake of these troublesome events, Richard leaves
England for Ireland, a decision widely considered folly considering the turmoil England is in. Bolingbroke returns to England and many nobleman flock to his banner; Richard is overthrown.
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John watches as his father is crowned Henry IV of
England and Harry is made Prince of Wales, but remains sceptical that his family has a more immediate claim to the crown than others in their family. The new king's supporters insist Henry kill Richard and others who oppose him, but Henry resists the
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Regency novel however, Heyer found it difficult to return to writing the trilogy and "recapture the spirit of her main work," as each time she had to refresh her knowledge of the era. As a result, she only managed to complete nearly a third of the trilogy, and
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at the peak of its power (1393β1435), with John as its central character. She felt that John, now largely unknown today, was ideal because he was a "great man" who lived during the entirety of her selected time period and was the most trusted brother of Henry V. However, Heyer failed to complete the
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garnered a mostly negative reception from contemporary readers and literary critics, who felt that it lacked narrative flow and was inferior to Heyer's
Regency novels. Modern critics also have viewed the work unfavourably. Featuring significant historical detail, it has been labelled "more serious"
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and many others. Slowly dying of old age, Gaunt's final advice to
Richard, that he put aside his favourites and become a just king, falls on deaf ears. Gaunt dies soon after; Richard becomes increasingly dictatorial and prevents Gaunt's vast inheritance from being granted to Bolingbroke; his
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was the result of these efforts. It became her only completed volume of the series. Heyer died in 1974, with a story that only covered a quarter of John of
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469:. He takes all three positions seriously, devoting himself to the acquirement of knowledge necessary for effective administration. He comes of age in the midst of these busy tasks, a ready pupil to the string of men sent to advise him. He helps his father withstand the
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and created indexed files that catalogued every single day for the forty year time period. She and her husband travelled England and Scotland, where Heyer took copious notes while visiting seventy-five castles and twenty-three abbeys.
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would be her masterpiece, it instead "serves mainly as an illustration that authors are often terrible at determining which of their works is actually a masterpiece.
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1754:Black Sheep
1674:Bath Tangle
1546:Devil's Cub
1538:Barren Corn
1089:Works cited
867:Toomey 1975
843:Bannon 1975
747:Womack 2004
656:Devlin 1984
519:A. S. Byatt
475:Westmorland
256:(1957) and
244:Middle Ages
236:Regency era
1797:Categories
1690:April Lady
1431:Beauvallet
1359:required.)
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606:References
424:Gloucester
405:Queen Anne
403:, as does
253:April Lady
177:Richard II
1746:Frederica
1658:Cotillion
1265:"Preface"
1113:2 January
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1052:The Times
1002:2 January
879:Earl 1976
705:8 January
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592:Mari Ness
590:in 2012,
579:The Times
409:Constance
124:823/.9/12
74:Oct 1975
68:Jul 1975
65:Published
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564:bel sire
560:lordings
497:likened
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225:pictured
49:Language
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193:Regency
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