Kate Sedley

{{Short description|English novelist (1926–2022)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Sources|date=December 2023}} {{Infobox writer  | name = Brenda Clarke | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | pseudonym = Kate Sedley<br />Brenda Honeyman | birth_name = Brenda Margaret Lilian Honeyman | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1926|07|30}}<ref name="Contemp">{{cite book | url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G2-3057000031.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160409103703/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G2-3057000031.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=9 April 2016 | title=Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series}}</ref> | birth_place = Bristol, England | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2022|02|28|1926|07|30}} | death_place = | resting_place = | occupation = Author | language = English | nationality = British | alma_mater = Cambridge University<ref name="Contemp" /> | period = | genre = Historical crime novels | notableworks = | spouse = Ronald John Clarke }}

'''Brenda Margaret Lilian Clarke''' (née '''Honeyman''', 30 July 1926 – 28 February 2022), better known by the pen-name of '''Kate Sedley''', was an English historical novelist.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=L0IgAAAAIBAJ&sjid=vX8EAAAAIBAJ&pg=6311,2963791&dq=kate-sedley&hl=en|title=Impostor or not and tragedy resurrected|last=Philips|first=Helen|date=17 December 2001|work=Sarasota Herald-Tribune|page=4B|accessdate=1 June 2011}}</ref>

She was born in Bristol in 1926 and educated at The Red Maids' School, Westbury-on-Trym. She was married and had a son and a daughter, and three grandchildren. Her medieval historical whodunnits feature Roger the Chapman, who has given up a monk's cell for the freedom of peddling his wares on the road.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.orderofbooks.com/characters/roger-the-chapman/ | title=Order of Roger The Chapman Books | access-date=2024-07-20 | website=www.orderofbooks.com}}</ref> She died on 28 February 2022, at the age of 95.<ref>{{cite web |title=Brenda Margaret Lilian Clarke |url=https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/search-results |website=Probate Search |access-date=19 December 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Brends Clarke née Honeyman |url=https://rmsociety.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Brenda-Clarke-adapted.pdf |website=The Red Maids Society |access-date=19 December 2023 |archive-date=19 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231219001003/https://rmsociety.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Brenda-Clarke-adapted.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Roger the Chapman series== Set in 15th-century Great Britain: #''Death and the Chapman'' (1991) #''The Plymouth Cloak'' (1992) #''The Hanged Man'' aka ''The Weaver's Tale'' (1993) #''The Holy Innocents'' (1994) #''The Eve of Saint Hyacinth'' (1995) #''The Wicked Winter'' (1995) #''The Brothers of Glastonbury'' (1997) #''The Weaver's Inheritance'' (1998) #''The Saint John's Fern'' (1999) #''The Goldsmith's Daughter'' (2001) #''The Lammas Feast'' (2002) #''Nine Men Dancing'' (2003) #''The Midsummer Rose'' (2004) #''The Burgundian's Tale'' (2005) #''Prodigal Son'' (2006) #''The Three Kings of Cologne'' (2007) #''The Green Man'' (2008) #''The Dance of Death'' (2009) #''The Wheel of Fate'' (2010) #''The Midsummer Crown'' (2011) #''The Tintern Treasure'' (2012) #''The Christmas Wassail'' (2013)

==As Brenda Honeyman== * ''The Kingmaker'' (1969) * ''Richmond and Elizabeth'' (1970) * ''Harry the King'' (1971) aka ''The Warrior King'' as Brenda Clarke * ''Brother Bedford'' (1972) * ''Good Duke Humphrey'' (1973) * ''The King's Minions'' (1974) * ''The Queen and Mortimer'' (1974) * ''Edward the Warrior'' (1975) * ''All the King's Sons'' (1976) * ''The Golden Griffin'' (1976) * ''At the King's Court'' (1977) * ''The King's Tale'' (1977) * ''Macbeth, King of Scots'' (1977) * ''Emma, the Queen'' (1978) * ''Harold of the English'' (1979)

==As Brenda Clarke== * ''Glass Island'' (1978) * ''The Lofty Banners'' (1979) aka ''For King and Country'' * ''Far Morning'' (1982) * ''All Through the Day'' (1983) * ''A Rose in May'' (1984) * ''Three Women'' (1985) * ''Winter Landscape'' (1986) * ''Under Heaven'' (1988) * ''Equal Chance'' (1989) * ''Sisters and Lovers'' (1990) * ''Beyond the World'' (1991) * ''Riches of the Heart'' (1991) * ''A Durable Fire'' (1993) * ''Sweet Auburn'' (1995) * ''Richard Plantagenet'' (1997) * ''Last of the Barons'' (1998) * ''The Warrior King'' (1998) aka ''Harry the King'' as Brenda Honeyman * ''A Royal Alliance'' (1998)

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *[http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/s/kate-sedley/ Sedley short biography] at Fantastic Fiction *[http://us.macmillan.com/author/katesedley Sedley at Macmillan]

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