Martha Rofheart (1917–1990)
Författare till Fortune Made His Sword
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Foto taget av: Martha Rofheart with book. Photo by Bruce Knight.
Verk av Martha Rofheart
Cry "Go for Harry" 1 exemplar
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Allmänna fakta
- Vedertaget namn
- Rofheart, Martha
- Födelsedag
- 1917-05-27
- Avled
- 1990-06-19
- Kön
- female
- Nationalitet
- United States of America
- Födelseort
- Louisville, Kentucky, USA
- Dödsort
- New York, New York, USA
- Utbildning
- University of Cincinnati
- Yrken
- novelist
actor
model
advertising copywriter - Kort biografi
- Martha Rofheart, née Jones, was born in Louisville, Kentucky and moved to New York City to become a model and actress. She made her Broadway debut in 1942 in The Pirate with Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, who was her mentor. She appeared in a number of other plays on Broadway and on tour in the USA and Canada. In 1943, she married Robert Emhardt, a fellow actor; they later divorced. In 1952, she married Ralph Rofheart, an art director and advertising executive, with whom she had a son. In the late 1960s, Mrs. Rofheart began working as a freelance ad copywriter, and went on to write historical novels. Her first book, Fortune Made His Sword, appeared in 1972. It was published as Cry God For Harry in the UK.
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Written in the early 1970’s, Rofheart makes use of multiple first person narrations to relate the events of Henry V’s life (a technique she also uses in her book about Richard I, Lionheart). A couple of her choices for narrators and the accompanying story they tell seemed to have little relevance to Henry, although the narration of one of the knights from Agincourt was rather interesting.
A historical novel about the Welsh hero, Owen Glendower, descendant of Llewellyn the Great. Handsome, educated, well-traveled, and cosmopolitan, Rofheart paints Glendower as a renaissance man, raised during a time of peace and inclusion for the Welsh, as the English were loosening harsh, restrictive laws from earlier wars. But all that changed when Edward III's grandson, Richard II, was forced to abdicate and then was murdered by his cousin, Henry Bolingbroke (later Henry IV). Welsh sympathies fell on the side of Richard, leading to a revolt against Bolingbroke.
Divided into six first-person narratives, one by Owen and five other individuals who knew him, Rofheart conveys through their eyes Glendower's story and the unity and sense of community of the Welsh, their individualism and their mysticism, their love of poetry, their open, more tolerant society, and their stubborn fight against the encroachment of an English feudal society that meant slavery for them.… (mer)
Divided into six first-person narratives, one by Owen and five other individuals who knew him, Rofheart conveys through their eyes Glendower's story and the unity and sense of community of the Welsh, their individualism and their mysticism, their love of poetry, their open, more tolerant society, and their stubborn fight against the encroachment of an English feudal society that meant slavery for them.… (mer)
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Statistik
- Verk
- 8
- Medlemmar
- 325
- Popularitet
- #72,884
- Betyg
- 3.5
- Recensioner
- 5
- ISBN
- 28
- Språk
- 1
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I was given a digital copy of this novel by the publisher via Netgalley in return for an honest unbiased review.