Any other fans of Philippa Wiat?

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Any other fans of Philippa Wiat?

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This writer now seems to have been forgotten or overlooked, but there WAS a Philippa in historical novel land before the divine Ms Gregory. I inherited a stack of her books from my Mum, and you also find them in libraries, alas (though not if you want to buy them!!) sometimes as discards. She covered a massive range of subjects from fairly straight 'fictional biographies of queens to rather gruesome historical mysteries and murder (The Mistletoe Bough is seriously spooky!!). She also seems to have been a rather interesting character, claiming she could trace her descent back to Odin and I honestly don't know how much was tongue in cheek.
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
Henry David Thoreau
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