Review: Short and not very sweet
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 20, 2014
Ms. Higginbotham writes as a serious historian and is true to her sources; consequently this is a very short book as Edward of Lancaster 1) did not live long; 2) was not in the public eye for most of his life, and consequently has little written about him; and 3)was on the losing side. The only thing that saved him from complete obscurity was the Tudor propaganda machine, which turned his death into martyrdom (it probably wasn't.) A welcome antidote to the fictionalized accounts of his life, emphasis on fictionalized, that occur in the currently popular Tudor/Plantagenet historical fiction.