Philip LindsayReseñas

This re-telling of Jane Shore's story dates from the 1950s, and opens with Jane as she performs her "walk of shame" in her kirtle through the streets with a taper in her hand, and attracting a lot of male attention along the way. Following her penance, Jane is confined to Ludgate Prison where she reflects on her life and takes us back to where it all began.

Lindsay's novel contains much detail, focuses more on her relationships, is slightly dated by today's standards, though is still quite a readable tome on a woman at the periphery of the Wars of the Roses.

Vedi l'edizione in lingua italiana edita da Rizzoli nel 1956

In the past year, Endeavour Press have republished at least seven historical novels by the Australian author Philip Lindsay (1906-1958). A Princely Knave, which follows the fortunes of Perkin Warbeck, pretender to the English throne in 1497, is the only one I’ve read, but Helen has reviewed two of the others, Here Comes the King and The Devil and King John. Just to make matters more confusing, Endeavour are also publishing A Princely Knave as an ebook under its original title They Have Their Dreams, so be warned. First published in 1956, it’s very much of a novel of its time, in which some beautiful writing is ultimately stymied by stiffly two-dimensional characterisation.

For the rest of the review, please see my blog:
http://theidlewoman.net/2016/11/03/a-princely-knave-philip-lindsay/½

I hadn't read of Jane Shore previously so this story was a fascinating account of the life of a woman, intelligent and ambitious, finding herself at the heart of Edward IV's court and his bed.
Then finally to her downfall.
I was given a digital copy of this book by the publisher Endeavour via Netgalley in return for an honest unbiased review.

... There has been a good deal of blackwashing and whitewashing of Sir Henry Morgan, beginning in his own lifetime, but there is none of either in the astonishing tribute paid to him by a whole family of Lindsays and published in a limited edition by the Fanfrolico Press. This 'account biographical and informative' of his latter days, is a high-spirited application of the methods of Mr Lytton Strachey to very different material than the life of Queen Victoria. It is biography on two persons, now Morgan himself looking wild-eyed from his bed through his fiery, murky past, now his biographer, somehow contemporaneous and more intimate than Morgan could be with himself.

Arthur Ransome in The Observer, 17 Aug 1930; reproduced in Christina Hardyment, Ransome on blue water sailing (1999), pp. 62-64.