Merry Meerkat Marginalia

Book Reviews.

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Single novels

  • Together They Ride (1945)
  • Beyond the Blue Mountains (1948)
  • The Goldsmith's Wife (1950) (aka The King's Mistress)
  • Daughter of Satan (1952)
  • Lilith (1954)
  • Melisande (It Began in Vauxhall Gardens) (1955)
  • The Scarlet Cloak (1957)
  • Milady Charlotte (1959)
  • Evergreen Gallant (1965)
  • Defenders of the Faith* (1971)
  • Madame du Barry* (1994)
  • The King's Adventurer* (1996) (Originally This Was a Man by Ellalice Tate)

The Tudor Saga

  1. Uneasy Lies the Head (1982)
  2. Katharine, the Virgin Widow (1961)
  3. The Shadow of the Pomegranate (1962)
  4. The King's Secret Matter (1962)
  5. Murder Most Royal (1949)
  6. Saint Thomas' Eve (1954)
  7. The Sixth Wife (1953)
  8. The Thistle and the Rose (1963)
  9. Mary, Queen of France (1964)
  10. The Spanish Bridegroom (1954)
  11. Gay Lord Robert (1955) (republished as Lord Robert (UK) in 2007 and A Favorite of the Queen (US) in 2010)
    • Katharine of Aragon (omnibus of 2–4)

The Catherine De Medici Trilogy

  1. Madame Serpent (1951)
  2. The Italian Woman (1952) (aka The Unholy Woman)
  3. Queen Jezebel (1953)
    • Catherine De Medici (omnibus) (1969)

The Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots Series

  1. Royal Road to Fotheringhay* (1955) (first published as by Eleanor Burford)
  2. The Captive Queen of Scots (1963)

The Stuart Saga

  1. The Murder in the Tower (1964)
  2. The Wandering Prince (1956)
  3. A Health Unto His Majesty (1956)
  4. Here Lies Our Sovereign Lord (1957)
  5. The Three Crowns (1965)
  6. The Haunted Sisters (1966)
  7. The Queen's Favourites (1966)
    • Charles II (omnibus of 2–4)

The French Revolution Series

  1. Louis the Well Beloved (1959)
  2. The Road to Compiegne (1959)
  3. Flaunting, Extravagant Queen (1957)

The Lucrezia Borgia Series

  1. Madonna of the Seven Hills (1958)
  2. Light on Lucrezia (1958)

The Isabella and Ferdinand Trilogy

  1. Castile for Isabella (1960)
  2. Spain for the Sovereigns (1960)
  3. Daughter of Spain (1961)
    • Isabella and Ferdinand (Omnibus) (1970)

The Georgian Saga

  1. The Princess of Celle (1967)
  2. Queen in Waiting (1967)
  3. Caroline, the Queen (1968)
  4. The Prince and the Quakeress (1975)
  5. The Third George (1969)
  6. Perdita's Prince (1969)
  7. Sweet Lass of Richmond Hill (1970)
  8. Indiscretions of the Queen (1970)
  9. The Regent's Daughter (1971)
  10. Goddess of the Green Room (1971)
  11. Victoria in the Wings (1972)

The Queen Victoria Series

  1. The Captive of Kensington Palace (1972)
  2. The Queen and Lord M (1973)
  3. The Queen's Husband (1973)
  4. The Widow of Windsor (1974)

The Norman Trilogy

  1. The Bastard King (1974)
  2. The Lion of Justice (1975)
  3. The Passionate Enemies (1976)

The Plantagenet Saga

  1. The Plantagenet Prelude (1976)
  2. The Revolt of the Eaglets (1977)
  3. The Heart of the Lion (1977)
  4. The Prince of Darkness (1978)
  5. The Battle of the Queens (1978)
  6. The Queen from Provence (1979)
  7. Edward Longshanks (1979) (republished as The Hammer of the Scots in 2008)
  8. The Follies of the King (1980)
  9. The Vow on the Heron (1980)
  10. Passage to Pontefract (1981)
  11. The Star of Lancaster (1981)
  12. Epitaph for Three Women (1981)
  13. Red Rose of Anjou (1982)
  14. The Sun in Splendour (1982)