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Jul 10, 2021 · Annie Garthwaite’s novel, CECILY, will be published by Penguin on 29 July 2021 and is available to pre-order from all online and high street book retailers. Find out more, and sign up for news, at www.anniegarthwaite.com .
Jul 20, 2023 · Eighty years old at the time of her death, Cecily Neville lived to see the accession of two of her sons to the English throne (both of whom she outlived), the epochal fall of the Plantagenets, and the rise of the Tudor dynasty, of which she was an ancestress.
Jul 26, 2021 · Finding my matriarch, Cecily Neville. Annie Garthwaite describes the 40-year journey that ends on 29 July, 2021, with the publication of her debut novel, Cecily. And reflects on how writing helped her find a matriarch of her own. Mum taught me to read long before school.
The book contains a huge wealth of meticulously researched material about the day-to-day life of the duke and duchess of York: their servants’ names and wages, their peregrinations around the vast York estates, their life as Governors of Normandy in a time of war.
Jul 18, 2013 · Abstract. Cecily Neville was the mother of kings, matriarch of the house of York and ancestress of the Tudor dynasty. A daughter of Ralph Neville by his second wife, Joan Beaufort, Cecily's childhood had been spent in the north, yet it was Fotheringhay in Northamptonshire, the midlands seat of her husband's family, that seems to have been ...
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Apr 28, 2014 · Cecily Neville: Mother of Kings provided a detailed look into the life of the Duchess of York. The facts were supported by contemporary works and letters, and Cecily's actions on several major historical events were interpreted by the author based on Cecily's known character.
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Aug 19, 2021 · And then she cracked the spine of the book she’s waited thirty years to write, and read. It’s the end of May, 1449. Cecily, her husband Richard, and their small children (among them the future Edward IV), are riding across Ludlow Bridge, to the castle.
