![]() ![]() “I was just always fascinated by the time period. So she turned her prodigious attention entirely to writing, deciding to hang around in the Middle Ages. “I didn’t like the law at all,” confessed Penman. Martin’s Press) in 1982, after 12 years of working on it in every moment she could snatch from getting and practicing her law degree. She told Richard’s story in “The Sunne in Splendor” (St. ![]() ![]() So I decided that if I wanted to save my social life, I would have to find another outlet for that.” “I was pushing my friends against walls at parties and telling them how history had mistreated him,” she recalled, a little ruefully, by phone from her home in New Jersey.”And I got the same reaction from all of them: ‘Richard who?’ Then when I started to explain, their eyes would glaze over and they’d sidle away. Penman stumbled onto a revisionist history of his life in the 1960s, and was both fascinated and sucked in by its polar opposition to the narrative she thought she knew - promptly beginning an ad hoc, one-woman mission to resurrect his good name. The first was Richard III, the 15th century English king immortalized by Shakespeare as a hunchbacked, womanizing, nephew-imprisoning power monger. ![]() Sharon Kay Penman has some very famous friends. ![]()
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