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Life
1948-2011 [pseud. "Ariana Franklin" for the fourth Adelia Aguilar mystery ser.]; b. London and raised in Devon where her parents moved during the Blitz; Barry Norman, the film critic, with who two dgs.; author of Terrible Beauty: A Life of Constance Markievicz, 1868-1927 (1987 [var. 1985]), and Irish novels incl. Daughter of Lír (1988), feminist tale set during Norman invasion, and Pirate Queen (1991), on Granuaile; d. Datchworth (Herts); there is a life by her husband (See You in the Morning, 2013). Wiki.
Note: this writer has no apparent Irish connection but repeatedly wrote of Irish subjects arising from her studies in medieval history.
Works
Fitzempress’ law (London: Hodder & Stoughton 1980), 284pp.; King of the Last Days (London: Hodder & Stoughton 1981), 189pp.; The Morning Gift (London: Hodder & Stoughton 1985, 1987; Headline 1991), 256pp.; Terrible Beauty: A Life of Constance Markievicz, 1868-1927 (London: Hodder & Stoughton 1985), and Do. [rep.] (Dublin: Poolbeg Press 1988), 320pp.; Daughter of Lir (London: Headline 1988, 1989), 384pp. ; Pirate Queen (London: Headline 1991, 1992), 704pp.; The Vizard Mask (London: Michael Joseph 1994, 1995), 672pp.; Blood Royal (London: Michael Joseph 1998), 336pp.; A Catch of Consequence (London: HarperCollins 2002; 2003), 320pp.; Taking Liberties (London: HarperCollins 2003), 439pp. Also omnibus edn., Of Love and Life: Three Novels (Reader’s Digest [2002]), 476pp. [condensed]. Also Stately Ghosts of England (1863, rep. 1977) and Road from Singapore (1970, rep. 1979).
Notes
Namesake : ed., of Siena, Florence, and Padua: Art, Society, and Religion 1280-1400: Study (1996).
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