It is my great pleasure this week to announce the release of fellow Hoyden, Anita Seymour's wonderful new book, ROYALIST REBEL
I can't quite remember how Anita and I "met" but our mutual passion for all things seventeenth century led to us co-founding Hoydens and Firebrands, a blog devoted just to the seventeenth century.
Like me, Anita, has struggled to find a place for her seventeenth century stories (writing as Anita Davison - Duking Days and Duking Days Rebellion) so I was thrilled to learn that Pen and Sword had contracted her fictionalised story of the real life Elizabeth Murray. The English Civil War spawned amazing stories of resilient women, left alone to defend their homes against the "enemy", who quite possibly, had been until recently good friends and neighbours.
..but I'll let the official blurb do the talking.
Royalist
Rebel by Anita Seymour
Intelligent, witty and beautiful, Elizabeth Murray wasn’t born noble; her family’s fortunes came from her Scottish father’s boyhood friendship with King Charles. As the heir to Ham House, their mansion on the Thames near Richmond, Elizabeth was always destined for greater things.
Royalist
Rebel is the story of Elizabeth’s youth during the English Civil
War, of a determined and passionate young woman dedicated to Ham House, the
Royalist cause and the three men in her life; her father William Murray, son of
a minister who rose to become King Charles’ friend and confidant, the rich
baronet Lionel Tollemache, her husband of twenty years who adored her and John
Maitland, Duke of Lauderdale, Charles II’s favourite.
With William
Murray at King Charles’ exiled court in Oxford, the five Murray women have to
cope alone. Crippled by fines for their Royalist sympathies, and besieged by
the Surrey Sequestration Committee, Elizabeth must find a wealthy,
non-political husband to save herself, her sisters, and their inheritance.
Royalist Rebel by Claymore Books, an
imprint of Pen and Sword, is released on 31st January 2013. Visit the Pen and Sword Website or Amazon to purchase the book. It is available on pre-order.
For a little background
on the novel, see:
- Anita’s Royalist Rebel Book Blog
- The NationalTrust Website of Elizabeth Murray’s former home, Ham House, at Petersham near Richmond, Surrey
- Anita’s "Disorganised Author" Blog
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| Here's cheers to a successful book, Anita :-) |
