Kathleen May Herbert 24 or 25 November 1924, Old Portsmouth - 31 July 2016. Birth [1], death [2]. Facebook [3], The Gazette Deceased Estates [4], 1965 electoral register [5], 1939 Register [6]. Not enough biographical info in independent sources yet.
Add to: Category:Writers of historical fiction set in the Middle Ages List of historical novelists
Sources
editNovels
editBride of the Spear
editPublishers' Weekly on Bride of the Spear [7]
Review in The Kokomo Tribune (Kokomo, Indiana) [8]
Queen of the Lightning
editReview of Queen of the Lightning Newcastle Journal 6 October 1983 [9]
QUEEN OF THE LIGHTNING Kirkus Review [10]
The Times Review of Queen of the Lightning (The case of the murderous monks. Philippa Toomey.) [11]
Washington Post review (Breaking The Mold - The Washington Post [12] Feb 10, 1984 - Superficially, Kathleen Herbert has followed something like this ... of history (she won a First at Oxford) and as a student of J.R.R. Tolkien)
Review in The Marshall News Messenger (Marshall, Texas) [13]
Reading the Past blog - The Historical Novel Prize in Memory of Georgette Heyer - award winners [14]
Translated into French and Dutch (on Goodreads)
Ghost in the Sunlight
editThe Warrior Queen: The Life and Legend of Aethelflaed, Daughter of Alfred (suggested Aethelflaed may have been using her body to prevent the conception of a male Mercian heir) [15]
Review in Santa Cruz Sentinel [16]
Review in The Observer (London) [17]
Trilogy
editThe Arthurian Handbook: Second Edition (less successful but nonetheless interesting novels) [18]
The Camelot Project interview with Kathleen Herbert [19]
A Bibliography of Modern Arthuriana (1500-2000) [20]
The New Arthurian Encyclopedia: New edition [21]
Moon in Leo
editMoon in Leo on blog [22]
Historical Novel Society Moon in Leo review [23]
The Clitheroe Advertiser and Times, Book review: Moon in Leo by Kathleen Herbert [24]
The Once and Future Queen
editNon-fiction
editLooking for the Lost Gods of England
editAnglo-Saxon Publishers blurb about Looking for the Lost Gods of England [25]
The Sacred Tree: Ancient and Medieval Manifestations (aims to raise popular awareness of Anglo-Saxon and British-Celtic culture, but despite her knowledge and love of the subject fails to meet academic standards of probity) [26]
An English nationalism [27]
The Politics of Tradition: Examining the History of the Old English Poems The Wife's Lament and Wulf and Eadwacer [28]
Imagining the Pagan Past: Gods and Goddesses in Literature and History since ... [29]
Path to the Gods: Anglo-Saxon Paganism for Beginners (somewhere I found that it lists one of her books as further reading) [30]
Wuffing Education, Rediscovering Old English Gods and Goddesses - Reading list [31]
Queen of the Hearth: An Anthology for Frigga [32]
and same author Holy Mother, Healer and Queen: Papers on the Feminine Divine [33]
Referenced in Game of Thrones versus History: Written in Blood edited by Brian A. Pavlac (can't see the page) [34]
Peace-Weavers and Shield Maidens: Women in Early English Society
editThis and Looking for the Lost Gods recommended in Fantasy and Science Fiction Medievalisms: From Isaac Asimov to A Game of Thrones
edited by Helen Young [35]
Both also referenced in A Companion to Beowulf By Ruth A. Johnston, Ruth Johnston Staver [36]
Included in a bibliography of publications in Anglo-Saxon studies (under History) in Anglo-Saxon England: edited by Michael Lapidge, Malcolm Godden, Simon Keynes [37]
Old English Heroic Legends
edit(Is Spellcraft - Old English Heroic Legends the same book? Is this called English Heroic Legends, as on Goodreads, or Old English Heroic Legends?)
Anglo-Saxon Publishers blurb about Old English Heroic Legends [38]
An English nationalism [39]
Others
editPoem published in 1973 [40]
Cumbrian woman launches publishing firm to help old friend [41]
Trifolium Books - our authors [42]
Kathleen Herbert on Amazon [43]
Kathleen Herbert on Goodreads (including translations) [44]