The Stuarts 1600 - 1710 approx

[Catie]

This is my favourite period to read about. There are a number of great writers have published books in the last 30 years but what are your favourite classic hfs for the period

Here, in no particular order, are some of mine
Forever Amber by Kathleen Winsor
The White Witch by Elizabeth Goudge
Mist Over Pendle by Robert Neill
Royal Flush: The Story of Minette by Margaret Irwin
Simon Dale by Anthony Hope
Hobberdy Dick by K M Briggs
The Devil in Velvet by John Dickson Carr
The Winthrop Woman by Anya Seton
The King's General by Daphne Du Maurier
For the King by Ronald Welch

I'd love to see some recommendations of books I haven't yet run across...

[Misfit]

I have White Witch and Mist over Pendle languishing somewhere. I've read Royal Flush - good but a bit dry. Du Maurier and Seton and favs of mine.

[Sandi *~The Pirate Wench~*]

Forever Amber is still a favorite of mine(even when I wanted to give her a good slap for the things she did)
Also Du Maurier and Seton as well. Some interesting ones you have there Catie, will check them out:)

[Misfit]

Here are a few that are borderline for our group, being published mostly in the 80s.

The Quickenberry Tree by Annette Motley
The Child from the Sea by Elizabeth Goudge
Black Madonna, Garland of Straw and A Splendid Defiance (now on kindle!) by Stella Riley
The Heron trilogy by Pamela Belle. The Moon in The Water, The Chains of Fate and Alethea
The Wintercombe quartet by Pamela Belle. Wintercombe, Herald of Joy, A Falling Star and Treason's Gift.

[Catie]

Misfit wrote: "Here are a few that are borderline for our group, being published mostly in the 80s...."
It was Belle and Riley that I was carefully not naming as I thought they were outside the border :o)
I have the Motley tbr and while we're mentioning borderline books I suppose Diana Norman's The Vizard Mask fits the bill as well....

[Misfit]

Same here, but there was a general concurrence that the 80s was a cut-off date and I checked the publication dates of those. We can always leave the call up for the mod if she chooses to slap my hands :)

The Vizard Mask is excellent. Rupert is such a dish. I wish it wasn't so hard to find on the cheap.

[Sandra]

Catie,

How about
Exodus by Leon Uris
Jean Plaidy books
Sharon Kaye Penman books
Roots by AlexHailey
The Thorn Birds
North and South
Gone With the Wind


I want to retread Anya and The Winthrop Woman.

Sandra

[Catie]

Sandra, thanks for the suggestions.

There are definitely some Jean Plaidy books that fit the bill
The Wandering Prince (Stuart Saga, #4)
A Health Unto His Majesty (Stuart Saga, #5)
Here Lies Our Sovereign Lord (Stuart Saga, #6)
The Three Crowns
The Haunted Sisters
The Queen's Favourites
Just for starters....

[Catie]

Misfit wrote: "The Vizard Mask is excellent. Rupert is such a dish."
Which reminds me. The first book where I fell for him was
The Stranger Prince
but, goodness knows, it's 40 years since I read it and maybe you'd find that one a little dry as well.
I'm delighted to see that some, admittedly peripheral Irwins have made it onto the kindle. When I was in my teens, her Elizabeth books werte the best you could get on the subject - but that would be for a Tudors thread...