The war about The War of the Roses
a_svirn
a_svirn at yahoo.com
Tue Jun 3 11:27:49 UTC 2008
> > a_svirn:
> > I've read it. I think it is quite good though, naturally, biased.
> > Funnily enough, I've never read a good pro-Lancastrian novel.
> >
>
> Potioncat:
> I discovered historical fiction in my teens. For some reason all I
ever
> stumbled across were from the Lancastrian point of views. (Carol
would
> consider them unreliable narrators!)(that's a joke) So I was
absolutely
> shocked the first time I read a pro-York novel. None of the Yorks
had
> horns!
>
Oh, I don't think reliability is a requirement. I've just remembered
that I once read a pretty reliable historically pro-Lancastrian
novel Heyer's My Lord John. But I couldn't finish it because it was
almost impossible to get past all those "in sooth", "by troth"
and "unbosom, Harry".
a_svirn
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