Karen Harper
The Queen’s Confidante
London 1501. Henry VII is on the English throne and has united the two houses of York and Lancaster after…
Mistress of Mourning
It’s a daunting challenge: how to create a historical novel that accurately depicts a distant era without letting facts and…
Shakespeare’s Mistress
We all know that William Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway, albeit unwillingly, because she was pregnant with their first child, a…
The Irish Princess
She says she is sometimes mistaken for the English princess, Anne Boleyn’s daughter Elizabeth, with whom she shares a given…
The Queen’s Governess
Kat Ashley, who looked after Elizabeth I through much of her childhood and adolescence, and kept her love and loyalty…
Mistress Shakespeare
Basing her premise on a marriage bond found in Worcester, England, author Harper has fashioned an intriguing and plausible story…
The First Princess of Wales
Originally published in 1984 as Sweet Passion’s Pain and revised in this version, Karen Harper (now known for her Elizabeth…
The Last Boleyn
. (Prev. pub. as Passion’s Reign, Kensington, 1983) Mary Boleyn, Anne’s long-eclipsed sister, has lately had her own surge of…
The Fatal Fashione
The continued popularity of Elizabethan England as a topic of interest and an attractive setting for novels is thoroughly substantiated…
The Tidal Poole: An Elizabeth I Mystery
Queen Elizabeth the First is in vogue these days. First we have two popular movies (Shakespeare in Love and Elizabeth)…
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