I had a great deal of time for Basil Hume on most issues (we were particularly charmed by his response to an invitation to become official chaplain to the Oxford University Invade and Conquer France Society), and was disappointed to discover he'd been involved in that particular coverup at that place which we do not mention.
There is a rather wonderful moment in Patricia Finney's Gloriana's Torch (which I cannot imagine why it isn't the next Wolf Hall) where someone suggests pre-emptively interning the leading Catholic gentry (or something of that sort) to the Queen on the eve of the Armada and she Looks at them and says that she is confident her Catholic subjects will be the most English patriots of them all should Palma get a foot ashore .
Actually, if you're still collecting subjects for the general discussion, it'd might be interesting to consider the Elizabeth of the Players' novels ("We've Drake afloat and our Eliza ashore") with other depictions of Elizabeth in fiction- I read the Players books shortly after reading Trease's Cue for Treason and there's a very clear similarities with how the Queen is depicted in both books (and lesser though noticeable similarities in the depiction of Shakespeare).
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Re: Martyrs
Date: 2015-02-17 08:00 am (UTC)There is a rather wonderful moment in Patricia Finney's Gloriana's Torch (which I cannot imagine why it isn't the next Wolf Hall) where someone suggests pre-emptively interning the leading Catholic gentry (or something of that sort) to the Queen on the eve of the Armada and she Looks at them and says that she is confident her Catholic subjects will be the most English patriots of them all should Palma get a foot ashore .
Actually, if you're still collecting subjects for the general discussion, it'd might be interesting to consider the Elizabeth of the Players' novels ("We've Drake afloat and our Eliza ashore") with other depictions of Elizabeth in fiction- I read the Players books shortly after reading Trease's Cue for Treason and there's a very clear similarities with how the Queen is depicted in both books (and lesser though noticeable similarities in the depiction of Shakespeare).