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damned_colonial ([personal profile] damned_colonial) wrote in [community profile] readingthepast 2009-06-04 03:53 am (UTC)

Theme: Restoration
Prepared to run it: Sure.
Books:

Rose Tremain, "Restoration"

Other ideas from historicalnovels.info:

Diane Haeger, The Perfect Royal Mistress, about Nell Gwynne, the actress who became mistress of the seventeenth century Restoration King Charles II.

Karleen Koen, Dark Angels, about a lady-in-waiting in the Restoration court of Charles II.

Jude Morgan, The King's Touch, about Charles II, the English king of the Restoration period.

Jean Plaidy, The Wandering Prince (1956), about the Restoration King Charles II, #1 in the Charles II trilogy (now collected in a single volume as The Loves of Charles II).

Jean Plaidy, A Health Unto His Majesty (1956), about the Restoration King Charles II, #2 in the Charles II trilogy (now collected in a single volume as The Loves of Charles II).

Jean Plaidy, Here Lies Our Sovereign Lord (1957), about the Restoration King Charles II, #3 in the Charles II trilogy (now collected in a single volume as The Loves of Charles II).

Jean Plaidy, The Pleasures of Love (1991; new edition titled The Merry Monarch's Wife: The Story of Catherine of Braganza), about the Portuguese wife of the promiscuous Restoration king Charles II; #9 in the Queens of England series

Susan Holloway Scott, Royal Harlot (2007), about Charles II's mistress Barbara Villiers Palmer.

Susan Holloway Scott, Duchess: A Novel of Sarah Churchill (2006), about an ancestress of Winston Churchill at the Restoration court of Charles II.

Kathleen Winsor, Forever Amber (1944), about a mistress of Charles II who survives plague and the Great Fire of London; a forerunner of the bodice-ripper historical romance genre.



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