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Fiction
Short Stories
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.