Author: Brandy Purdy

Cites

• NULL (2)
  • IN: The Boleyn Bride (2010) Historical Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Life is but a cherry fair.
    FROM: A popular medieval English proverb about the transience of life, (None), Proverb, UK
  • IN: The Queen’s Rivals (2013) Historical Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: While I Lived, Yours.
    FROM: The inscription engraved inside the ring Katherine Grey sent her husband from her deathbed, (None), Inscription, UK
• Bible (4)
  • IN: The Boleyn Bride (2010) Historical Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labor that I had labored to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
    FROM: Ecclesiastes 2:11, (-165), Bible, NULL
  • IN: The Ripper’s Wife (2014) Historical Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
    FROM: Jeremiah 17:9, (-165), Bible, NULL
  • IN: The Secrets of Lizzie Borden (2016) Historical Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The truth shall set you free.
    FROM: John 8:32, (100), Bible, NULL
  • IN: The Queen’s Rivals (2013) Historical Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: My God, why hast Thou forsaken me?
    FROM: Matthew 27:46, (100), Bible, NULL
• Virgil (1)
  • IN: Two Empresses (2017) Historical Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Fortune sides with him who dares.
    FROM: Aeneid, (-19), Poem, Italy
• Francesco Petrarca (1)
  • IN: Two Empresses (2017) Historical Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.~~
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Italy
• (Sir) Thomas Wyatt (1)
  • IN: Two Empresses (2017) Historical Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: So freely wooed, so dearly bought, So soon a queen, so soon low brought, Hath not been seen, could not be thought. O! What is Fortune? As slippery as ice, as fleeting as snow, Like unto dice that a man doth throw, Until it arises he shall not know What shall be his fortune! They did her conduct to a tower of stone, Wherein she would wail and lament alone, And condemned be, for help there was none. Lo! Such was her fortune.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK
• Henry James (1)
  • IN: The Ripper’s Wife (2014) Historical Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: She was the most beautiful young lady I ever saw, and the most amiable… And she was the most innocent.
    FROM: Daisy Miller, (1878), Novel, US/England
• B. Gray, William (1)
  • IN: The Ripper’s Wife (2014) Historical Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: She is more to be pitied than censured, She is more to be helped than despised. She is only a lassie who ventured On life’s stormy path ill-advised. Do not scorn her with words fierce and bitter, Do not laugh at her shame and downfall. For a moment, just stop and consider That a man was the cause of it all.
    FROM: a popular ballad of the 1890s, (1898), Song, US
• Oscar Wilde (2)
  • IN: The Secrets of Lizzie Borden (2016) Historical Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants. The other is getting it.
    FROM: Wilde, (1997), Film, Ireland
  • IN: The Queen’s Rivals (2013) Historical Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
    FROM: The Importance of Being Earnest, (1898), Play, Ireland
• Saint Teresa of Avila (1)
  • IN: The Secrets of Lizzie Borden (2016) Historical Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Spain
• (Sir) Cecil, William (1)
  • IN: The Queen's Pleasure (2012) Historical Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Carnal marriages begin in joy but end in sorrow.
    FROM: commenting on the marriage of Robert Dudley and Amy Robsart, (1565), NULL, UK