Elizabethan Stories

LORD OLIVER CHRISTOPHER KENTSHIRE The name associated with Crown Prince's best friend. The heir to one of the most powerful and influential houses in Great Britain. The name uttered in every conversation with respect and admiration. HENRIETTA MURPHY The name associated with the most infamous prostitute of the century. The tragedy that shook entire Britain's nobility. The name that arises a feeling of disgust and shame. ONE DUTY! ONE SIN! KEEPING APART TWO SOULS FROM THE HAPPY ENDING.

Cecily Dencourt has her life mapped out perfectly. Marry Edmund Torrington, save her family from disgrace with his wealth, and publish her music in secret. It's a golden oppurtunity when she's sent to live with the Torringtons. But, when age-old loyalties are shattered and her secrets are threatened, can she untangle herself from a disaster she composed? Anthony Peyton is fleeing his past. Escape appears when he's called to live with his distant relatives, the Torringtons. He's here to work. Not fall in love. And especially not with his cousin's fiancée. But Cecily holds his broken heart in the palm of her hand. Is this his chance at love, or is he utterly doomed? Through the social upheavals of Elizabethan London and the origins of one iconic song, can an earl's daughter and a country parson's son find enough middle ground to form a life together? And will their days be filled with music or dreary silence?

Deep in the Essex countryside, the Grey Lady of Patience Bridge lures unwary travelers to their deaths. At nearby Temple Roding manor, superstitious maidservant Letty believes herself cursed, and is desperate for help. The irrepressible Perkin is secretly enlisted to quell her fears but he soon discovers that something unearthly is stalking Letty. Why has it picked on this innocent young beauty, and could the haunting be connected with the Grey Lady's tragedy? To free herself, Letty hazards everything in a daring gamble, and the smitten Perkin agrees to help. But if her plan fails, it won't just be the dead who are determined to take their revenge on the pair, but the living as well. And the living can be far more dangerous.

Originally a part of The Mermaid Stair (Crooked Cat, 2014) I was so fond of this scene, but it had to go in the interest of pacing and so on. But it's too much fun to waste. Please feel free to comment, Like, vote, and so on.

April is national poetry month. And these are the poems I wrote. One for everyday of the month.

A Love Poem

Welcome to a revision source for AQA History with their Elizabethan topic. Here you will find important information about the Elizabethan times. I hope you will find this resource useful. (Is easier to read on a computer than on the phone)

"When Mary does become Queen, I know for a fact that she will not make England great like she so claims she will easily do, but instead she will be digging the hole for England to fall." Kate Woodville is a loyal friend to Elizabeth Tudor and has been for many years, but she starts to struggle as she watches England being turned upside down as Mary Tudor takes the throne. She stands by Elizabeth's side as she is pushed into her sisters evil game. Caught in the turmoil of Tudor England Kate must find a way to crawl out alive as the competitive game for the throne becomes a game of life and death.

To her, he represents authority and power. To him, she spells sedition and danger. Orphaned at birth, Cecily Neville owes more than her name to the former hospitallers of Temple Roding. She was still a child when the reformation wrenched her home and adopted family from her and now, like the few surviving monks, she lives in fear that her past could take a deadly toll. Her closest friend is her precious peregrine falcon, Charlemagne. Her greatest enemy is Allan Smythe, the new owner of Temple Roding. Grieving over the loss of both wife and child, Smythe throws his heart and soul into reviving the old hospitaller commandery that he's bought in partnership with his brother-in-law, Kennett Clark. He can't risk being distracted by the mysterious but tempting Cecily and her murdering bird. However, when Smythe is forced to save her from his brother-in-law's lecherous clutches, the unscrupulous Kennett vows to destroy them both. On a knife-edge, Smythe can't afford to relax the rents owed by Cecily and her fellow villagers. If he doesn't demolish her former home for profit, he risks losing everything to Kennett. But when necessity forces him to employ Cecily, there's more at stake than his future and his battered heart. Something lies hidden in the depths of the hospitaller commandery that could solve all of Smythe's problems... or threaten his life. It all depends on whether he, or the very determined Cecily, finds it first.

“Kiss me.” Her mouth dropped open, his statement seemed to bring her to her senses as she pushed away from him stuttering and flushing a bright hue of red, all at once. It is the 1500's and England has seen the first Queen of England. Emma Cardon loses her memory due to a tragic accident, but who should be there to nurse her back to health? A dashing handsome gentleman that seems to neglect propriety at every turn. Will Emma succumb to his affections or will she escape in time? Unbeknownst to both a shadow dogs their footsteps and colours their happiness grey. The Elizabethan era has begun.

A 16th century scheme purportedly to help persecuted religious minorities to escape to a new life in the New World is , six centuries later, revealed to have been a deadly scam to maroon the passengers on an Arctic coast in order to provide forced labour for a factory, where feathers from a rare seabird (the snaegeir - a relative of the great auk) are harvested to supply a lucrative trade in Europe - a wholesale slaughter which, within a few years, brought the birds to the edge of extinction. In the present day, Robertson Crutcher, a descendant of Johannes Cruytser, the merchant venturer who initiated the trade and built the factory, sets about atoning for t-he bloody stain upon his ancestry by placating the ghosts of the exploited would-be pilgrims and rescuing what may be the last surviving pair of snaegeir birds from Alba Maior, after a reported sighting by a whaling crew. The title, you may have recognised, comes from Coleridge's the Rime of the Ancient Mariner, which is a major reference point. "Like one who, on a lonely road, Doth walk in fear and dread, And, having once turned round, walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. In addition, The story draws heavily upon the facts of Martin Frobisher's life as a privateer and explorer, and his largely fruitless voyages to the coast of Labrador in 1576-78, including his association with the merchant venturer Michael Lok and the 'astrologer royal' Doctor John Dee.

A ragtag last-minute story; of a young girl trying to find something worthwhile in her monotonous life; of concussions, conundrums and charming men... everything to indicate that she has a dirty little secret. Complete

Don Pedro, Claudio, and Leonato trick Benedick, while Hero and Ursula trick Beatrice into believing that the other is in love with them, and get Benedick and Beatrice's feelings to change, as the two go from being enemies to lovers by the mischievous scheme of their young friends But when Claudio, who is in love with Hero, on their wedding day, suddenly shames her, she faints, and to uncover the truth, Hero's family pretends she has died

When a young shape-shifting woman named Avice Lyon is banished from her town upon suspicion of practicing black magic, she becomes depressed after living on her own with just her horse for so long. She rides into a new nearby town out of sheer desperation to live a normal life again, and soon realizes that her desired "normal life" may not turn out the exact way she wanted.

The Suitor for Elizabeetta

Cynthia Gold, A gorgeous 'young' woman born 18th of March 1100, Awoken from her 'eternal' rest in 1382, recruited by Richard II to save his dynasty explores the world in turn. Where shall she end up? What shall she see?

Heart-warming sequel to LORD OF LOYALTY, Book 2 in the TRYSTS AND TREACHERY series on Amazon Hampstead, August 1586 "My sweet, will you not kiss me?" Mistress Paulina Mathieson stared at the man who had lured her away from both home and family. Claude, the Comte de Velors, had turned her head with promises of marriage and untold happiness, and being the possessor of a broken heart at that time, she'd hung on his every word. There was an element of revenge, too, in her decision to elope with him-Will Cavendish had spurned her, and must take some of the blame.

When I found my one true love, I did not expect everything to go quite this badly. ========================================= Running. Running with her. From them. I hear the howl of a wolf and we speed up, only to stop when we come across a deep ravine. No way to cross. A snaking river at the bottom. I turn to my newlywed wife and kiss her. She grabs my bandaged hand and steps up to the edge. I follow her. I trust her with my life. The wolves are getting closer. "I love you," I say. "I love you too, Cath," she responds. We jump. ========================================= Catherine Grenville is a young elizabethan girl unlike the others. She likes girls. Raised by her father after her mother dies giving birth to her, Catherine is left with a single, closed-off parent. On the day of her seventeenth birthday, her best friend, a young man, proposes to her. But she doesn't want to tie herself down to someone she will never love. So she runs off into the depths of her house. And what she finds there will change her worlds. Forever.