Red Queen, White Queen

by Henry Treece

Celtic Tetralogy (book 3)

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Based on the life of Boadicea.

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The idea that Boudicca's uprising is known only through the biased accounts of the victors, which are likely to be largely unreliable, is given in the prologue, and it seemed to me the only interesting idea expressed in the entire book. The author infers from it a license to present the Boudicca of his imagination: a maternal figure who is almost a goddess, a type of Earth mother. Continued
Couldn’t get into it. Was written ok, not for me

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Cawthorn, Jim (Illustrator)
Russ, Stephen (Cover artist)

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Original title
Red Queen, White Queen
Alternate titles
The Pagan Queen
Original publication date
1958
People/Characters
Boudica; Gemellus Ennius
Important places
Colchester, Essex, England, UK; London, England, UK
Important events
Iceni Revolt

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Genres
Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Historical Fiction
DDC/MDS
823Literature & rhetoricEnglish & Old English literaturesEnglish fiction
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PZ4 .T787Language and LiteratureFiction and juvenile belles lettresFiction and juvenile belles lettresFiction in English

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Languages
English
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ISBNs
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