Jeffrey, Evie (2019). "Capital Punishment and Women in the British Police Procedural: Josephine Tey's A Shilling for Candles and To Love and Be Wise". Clues: A Journal of Detection. 37 (2): 40–50.

All as Josephine Tey. These novels are set in the same fictional 20th-century Britain as the Inspector Grant novels. Toby Malone, " " A Dog, a Rat, ... a Cat to Scratch a Man to Death!": Olivier's Richard III and Popular Cultures", Literature/Film Quarterly, Vol. 37, No. 2 But the quest to discover Richard’s skeleton, and perhaps redeem his reputation, has earlier and equally unlikely roots. Though writers and historians have been arguing since the seventeenth century that Richard III wasn’t the villain whom Shakespeare described, it was a 1951 mystery novel that sparked mass interest in Richard’s redemption. The writer went by the name Josephine Tey, and the novel was called “The Daughter of Time.” Proceeds from Tey's estate, including royalties from her books, were assigned to the National Trust. [10] Reception and legacy [ edit ]Henderson, Jennifer Morag (2015). A Life: Josephine Tey. Dingwall: Sandstone. pp.91–93. ISBN 978-1-910985-37-3. And everything revolves around this. Historical data, books on the life of Richard III and his family, diverse opinions of the characters, etc. The Bill of Attainder that Henry and his supportive magnates did subsequently file against the deceased Richard merely accuses him generically of "cruelty and tyranny" during his reign – there is no specific accusation, nor even a mention, in it of Richard's suspected complicity in the princes' disappearance / assumed deaths.

This book remains an all time favourite, although I would now consider Brat Farrar as the best Tey I have read. Her only non-fiction book, Claverhouse, was written as a vindication of John Graham, 1st Viscount Dundee, whom she regarded as a libeled hero: "It is strange that a man whose life was so simple in pattern and so forthright in spirit should have become a peg for every legend, bloody or brave, that belonged to his time."For me, another one of those is Josephine Tey in The Daughter of Time. This is an extremely well put together advocacy of something that you then have to go away and read up on to realise it's probably not true. I like the Wars of the Roses, and I have to agree with majority historian opinion on this one: Tey's conclusion (or Tey's protagonist's conclusion) is probably not what happened. But for that glorious week, her conclusion slotted so beautifully in place, that it seemed to me to be the only possible way for events to have occurred. I showed it to my partner, and told him to go in sceptical, and he came out exactly the same way. That is a spectacular piece of sophistry, and I can't think of any circumstance in which I'd rather find it. At the end of the novel, Grant assures Carradine that he need not worry about a Great Discovery. “If you can’t be a pioneer what’s wrong with leading a crusade?” he says, adding, “There’s that old saying about constant water and its effect on stone.” Tey’s title, drawn from the saying that “truth is the daughter of time,” is a nod to this same idea—and her book did get the water flowing. It was the first in a wave of novels, plays, and biographies sympathetic to Richard that appeared in the fifties and sixties. (One of these, Paul Murray Kendall’s 1955 biography of the King, was the book through which Philippa Langley first encountered Richard III.) “The Daughter of Time” became a radio broadcast in 1952, and a subsequent series of letters about Richard’s reputation, published in the Radio Times_,_ introduced one “Daughter of Time” reader, Isolde Wigram, to a group of Ricardians who had formed their own organization in 1929. Wigram helped to reëstablish the group, now the Richard III Society, in its mission “to encourage and promote a more balanced view” of the King’s life and reputation. The group sponsored research that could reveal new details of Richard’s life. Half a century later, the members of the society were the Ricardians Langley called on to fund the Leicester excavation. a b "Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time - UK Crime Writers' Association". Library Thing . Retrieved 6 November 2023. While caring for her father she began her career as a writer. [5] Her first published work was in The Westminster Gazette in 1925, under the name Gordon Daviot. She continued publishing verse and short stories in The Westminster Review, The Glasgow Herald and the Literary Review. The Franchise Affair: televised in 1958 (Robert Hall), serials 1962 (Constance Cox) and 1988 (James Andrew Hall)

Había oído críticas muy buenas de este libro y me daba miedo que no superara las altas expectativas, pero lo ha hecho. Se trata de un "whodunit", pero con un giro. Sigue las convenciones del género, pero para investigar un enigma real: ¿qué sucedió con los "príncipes de la torre"? ¿Quién los asesino? Cualquiera diría que fue Ricardo III, que para eso es el protagonista de la mayor obra de propaganda jamás creada por Shakespeare, ¿pero es eso cierto? No dudo de la calidad histórica de la novela, pero me ha resultado tremendamente aburrida, hasta el punto del tedio.Brat Farrar (or Come and Kill Me) (1949) (the basis, without on-screen credit, for the 1963 Hammer production Paranoiac) A bored Inspector Grant, hospitalised with a broken leg (you certainly wouldn't be in hospital for a lengthy convalescence for that in modern NZ!) with the help of some friends decided to investigate the disappearance of The Princes in the Tower like it was a modern police case. The original premise -that someone with as nice a face as Richard III couldn't be a murderer- well I could show you some baby faced modern NZ murderers. I'm not sure the timeline and all the reasoning worked for me, but I am happy to keep an open mind and believe badly of Henry the VII! The premise was really original and worked well. Mystery author Elizabeth Peters's novel The Murders of Richard III references Tey's book repeatedly. I'm not sure how historically accurate the details of Tey's argument are, nor whether her evidence would stand up in a modern court of justice, but the case for Richard is presented in a convincing manner and makes a gripping read, mainly because the protagonist, Inspector Alan Grant, is absolutely convinced of Richard's innocence and hell-bent on finding evidence to support his subjective impression of the man, taking a violent dislike to Richard's most famous biographer, Sir Thomas More, in the process. I love books in which the characters get passionate and even a little obsessive about things, and Tey's Inspector Grant is nothing if not obsessive. His ferocious zeal for his quest (often expressed in violent outbursts to startled nurses) is quite infectious, to the point where you find yourself wishing for a big pile of history books and access to the British Museum to verify Grabt's discoveries for yourself. At least that's what the book did for me. After finishing The Daughter of Time, I spent several hours on line Googling the authors and historians Tey mentions in her book, some historical, others seemingly fictitious. In the course of my research, I came across several Ricardian societies, all working towards a rehabilitation of the last Plantagenet king. Many of their members seem to have joined after reading The Daughter of Time. In short, Tey's book has been influential, and for good reason -- it's a fascinating journey through English history, and a grand tale of high-minded obsession to boot. It had me add several history books to my to-read list. I love books which make me enthusiastic for previously unexplored subjects, so as far as that's concerned, Tey did a great job. There have been two radio adaptations broadcast. First in 1952 (scriptwriter not credited) and on 25 December 1982 on BBC Radio 4 FM's Afternoon Theatre, dramatised by Neville Teller. [8] Works with related themes [ edit ]

Winston Churchill stated in his History of the English-Speaking Peoples [6] his belief in Richard's guilt of the murder of the princes, adding, "It will take many ingenious books to raise the issue to the dignity of a historical controversy", probably referring to Tey's novel, published seven years earlier. The papers of Sir Alan Lascelles contain a reference to his conversation with Churchill about the book. [7] Adaptations [ edit ] Richard III had been credited with the elimination of two nephews, and his name was a synonym for evil. But Henry VII, whose ‘settled and considered policy’ was to eliminate a whole family was regarded as a shrewd and far-seeing monarch. Not very lovable perhaps, but constructive and painstaking, and very successful withal. Grant gave up. History was something that he would never understand. The values of historians differed so radically from any values with which he was acquainted that he could never hope to meet them on any common ground. The topic of the debate was whether, if the Scottish Parliament were to unilaterally declare that they were holding a referendum on independence, that would be legal. And Eminent Lawyer spoke first, and he said, "No. It would not be legal. Here is the Scotland Act; it specifically says it would not be legal. Here is constitutional convention; it would not support a unilaterally declared referendum. The Scottish Parliament would need the express support of the UK Parliament to hold such a referendum." And of course he is completely right, and that is how, a couple of years later, it ended up happening. Así pues, el inspector Alan Grant, postrado en cama, utiliza sus dotes detectivescas para ahondar en el pasado. Al final, por mucho que él opine otra cosa, realiza el trabajo de cualquier historiador: rastrear las fuentes para intentar hallar la verdad, o lo más cercano a ella, mediante un relato coherente.

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The Publisher Says: Scotland Yard Inspector Alan Grant is intrigued by a portrait of Richard III. Could such a sensitive face actually belong to a heinous villain — a king who killed his brother's children to secure his crown? Grant seeks what kind of man Richard was and who in fact killed the princes in the tower. know Morton. He was Morton of “Morton’s Fork”. [Pg 105]“You can’t be spending much so how about something The Franchise Affair (1948) [Inspector Grant appears briefly at the beginning, mentioned a few times] ( filmed in 1950 starring Michael Denison and Dulcie Gray) Josephine Tey presents the pro-Richard arguments in an unusual way. Published in 1951, the novel is set in the first part of the 20th century. Alan Grant, an inspector from Scotland Yard, was injured while pursuing a suspect. He is laid up in the hospital for weeks recovering from his injuries. Bored out of his gourd, he is looking for something to occupy him. It comes in the form of a picture, a print of this painting of King Richard III: Last year I read Josephine Tey’s Brat Farrar and quite enjoyed it. Tey is known for writing early mysteries, so I had expected somewhat the same fare from Daughter of Time, but I was wrong. There is a mystery at the heart of this novel, but it is a long debated one, the mystery of the Princes in the Tower and the blaming of their deaths on King Richard III, their uncle. Most of us know Shakespeare’s take on the story, but that, of course, is the Tudor take.