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Fiction

Short Stories

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COOKE, Heather

Too Long to Wait

From: Loving (a teenage romantic fiction magazine)

Published 1st April 1989

Young lovers who accidentally stumble on the truth about the disappearance of the Princes.

 

COREN, Alan

Getting the Hump

From: The Cricklewood Diet

Published 1983

Humorous account of how Richard developed a deformed body and an evil nature.

 

EISING, Karl M.

The Killing of King Richard on Bosworth Field

After Bosworth a soldier who witnessed the king’s death is interrogated (typescript). Written by a German member.

 

JAMES, G. P. R.

Perkin Warbeck

From: included in his book Dark Scenes of History (see the fiction section of the books catalogue)

Published 1852

Story of Richard Duke of York, alias Perkin Warbeck, 1485-99.

 

Lee, Tarith

The Lancastrian Blush

From: Women as Demons: the male perception of women through space and time

Published 1989

White magic fails to ensure Richard’s victory at Bosworth.

 

NEELE, Henry

Richmond’s Three Perils

From: included in his book The Romance of History (see the fiction section of the books catalogue)

Published 1828

How Perkin Warbeck won his bride by pretending to be the Duke of York.

 

NEELE, Henry

The White Rose of England

From: included in his book The Romance of History (see the fiction section of the books catalogue)

Published 1828

Richmond’s youth and attainment of the crown.

 

NEELE, Henry

The Wooing at Grafton

From: included in his book The Romance of History (see the fiction section of the books catalogue)

Published 1828

How Edward IV wooed and won his queen.

 

PAYNE, Laurence

The Mare who Mourned a King: a legend

From: Riding Annual

Published 1979

The story of the horse who carried Richard’s body back to Leicester after Bosworth.

 

PRIOR, Natalie Jane

The Gypsies

From: The Amazing Adventures of Amabel

Published 1990

Victorian-style children’s story of how Amabel rescued an unwilling bride from an evil hunchbacked gypsy called Richard.

 

 

Banner image of King Richard III’s Book of Hours (MS 474f. 7v) reproduced by kind permission of Lambeth Palace Library.

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