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Christina Hardyment – Alyce Chaucer: Fact and Fiction
24th October 2024 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Christina Hardyment is best known for her many non-fiction books about the home and landscape and literature, but over the last three years she has published a trilogy of history mysteries invented around Alyce Chaucer (1404-1475), the granddaughter of the famous Geoffrey Chaucer, author of the Canterbury Tales. Very little is known of Alyce’s life, and little remains of her palace at Ewelme, near Wallingford but her magnificent tomb and the almshouses and school she founded in Ewelme are perfectly preserved. Widowed three times by the time she was 45, she was one of the wealthiest women of her age, the troubled times of the Wars of the Roses.
Christina’s first two books about Alyce, The Serpent of Division and The Book of the Duchess have sold well and been reprinted, and the third, Murder will Out, is published in October 2024