- Rosemary Hawley Jarman
Rosemary Hawley Jarman is an English novelist and writer of short stories. She was born in
Worcester April 27 ,1935 . She was educated first at Saint Mary's Convent and then at The Alice Ottley School, leaving at eighteen to study singing inLondon for the next three years, having developed a fine soprano voice.Family circumstances prevented her from continuing in this direction and she worked for a time in local government. She was married to
David Jarman in 1958 and divorced amicably in 1970. She lived most of her time inWorcestershire at Callow End , between Worcester andUpton on Severn . She began to write for pleasure, and followed a very real and valid obsession with the character ofKing Richard III (1452-1485 - reigned 1483-85).With no thought of publication she completed a 228,000 word
novel showing the King in his true colours, away from Tudor and Shakespearian propaganda. The book was taken up almost accidentally by an agent, and within six weeks a contract for publication and four other novels was signed with William Collins Publishers, (nowHarper Collins ).The author has had short stories published in many magazines in the UK and France and has been a member of the
Society of Authors since 1970. She has been dubbed "A Daughter of Mark Twain" by theSamuel Clemens Society in the U.S.A. for her services to literature.She lived with the prize-winning author
R. T. Plumb for eighteen years in aWest Wales cottage. They married in September 2002, but the marriage was cut short after Roy died of cancer in October 2003. Jarman (now Mrs. Plumb) is herself recovering from lung cancer, but is working on a sequel to "The Captain's Witch".Published works
*"We Speak No Treason" (1971), [cite web|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,879057,00.html|title=Reconstituting Richard|publisher=
Time Magazine |accessdate=2008-08-25|last=|first=] awarded The Silver Quill.
*"The King's Grey Mare" (1972)
*"Crispen's Day" (1978)
*"Crown In Candlelight" (1978)
*"The Courts of Illusion" (1983)
*"The Mists of Melusine" (Daw Books) 1996.
*"The Mammoth Book of Historical Erotica" (1999) Three short stories.
*"Ai No Corrida" published in "Eros In Hell (Creation Books 1998).
*"The Captain's Witch" Egerton House PublishingReferences
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