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...Donkey, by H. F. M. Prescott. Vivid fictional chronicle of the 16th century Yorkshire rising against Henry VIII (TIME, Sept...
...DONKEY (627 pp.]-H.F.M. Prescott-Macmillan...
They are The Golden Warrior, by Hope Muntz, The Golden Band, by Edith Simon (TIME, April 28), and The Man on a Donkey, by H.F.M. Prescott, published last week in the U.S. All three novels are set in England during the Middle Ages or early modern times. All three were written by scholarly and literate Englishwomen. All three have something of the graciously precise air of old tapestry...
...Author Prescott, onetime vice-principal of St. Mary's College at the University of Durham, begins her stitching of events in the year 1509, when Henry VIII mounted the throne. The scene shifts back & forth between Yorkshire and London. The characters and circumstances are those involved in the King's expropriation of church property, and the answering rebellion of the North...
Last week the convention assembled in Hartford. Former Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce put on a vigorous campaign for the nomination, but the state's Republican leaders were determined to have Wall Street Banker Prescott Bush, and their will was done...