· The Man on a Donkey by H F M Prescott. This was first published in In , Henry VIII was almost toppled when Northern England rose to oppose the Dissolution of the Monasteries. For a few weeks Robert Aske, the leader of the rebels, held the fate of the entire nation in his hand .Estimated Reading Time: 4 mins. She is perhaps best known for her historical novel 'The Man on a Donkey;' written in the form of a chro. Hilda Francis Margaret Prescott, MA, MA, bltadwin.ru, FRSL was born in Cheshire, the daughter of Rev. James Mulleneux Prescott and his wife Margaret (née Warburton). She was educated at Wallasey High School and subsequently read Modern History at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford where she 4/5. · H.F.M. Prescott's The Man on a Donkey is called a Chronicle; as Prescott tells the stories of the historical and fictional characters, she interweaves their stories into the epic of the Pilgrimage of Grace. Each character's chronicle begins and ends, first with their life's story before the great events of and , then through the long autumn and winter of that year and into spring Estimated Reading Time: 4 mins.
The Man on a Donkey. H.F.M. Prescott. $; $; Publisher Description 'A classic of historical fiction' HILARY MANTEL. 'By widespread assent, one of the finest historical novels ever written. It may even be the finest' TLS. H.F.M. Prescott's The Man on a Donkey is called a Chronicle; as Prescott tells the stories of the historical and fictional characters, she interweaves their stories into the epic of the Pilgrimage of Grace. Each character's chronicle begins and ends, first with their life's story before the great events of and , then through the long autumn and winter of that year and into spring of. H. F. M. Prescott () studied history at Oxford and embarked on a successful writing career in the mids. She is best known for her historical novels, including Son of Dust and The Man on a Donkey, and for Spanish Tudor: The Life of Bloody Mary, her biography of Mary Tudor.
"The Golden Warrior by Hope Muntz and H.F.M. Prescott's The Man on a Donkey are two of the most interesting novels of the last five years. They are historical novels - the last is a scholar's brilliant evocation of life in the England of Henry VIII - and they are immensely superior to the faked-up, costume stuff we usually get in historical. H.F.M. Prescott's The Man on a Donkey is called a Chronicle; as Prescott tells the stories of the historical and fictional characters, she interweaves their stories into the epic of the Pilgrimage of Grace. Each character's chronicle begins and ends, first with their life's story before the great events of and , then through the long. The document has moved here.
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