The Daughter Of Time By Joseph
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Josephine Tey’s The Daughter of Time is a historical novel that looks at the belief that
Richard III, King of England, murdered his two nephews in order to maintain his power. This novel also
supports the belief that the “truth comes out through time.” In the novel the main character, Grant, ....
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.... to say. As was demonstrated in The Daughter of Time, the documents which Grant read all
differed in the way they viewed Richard III. This could have been because the writer’s attitudes
towards Richard were all different. For example, in the novel, Sir Thomas More’s and later accounts of
Richard III were derived from John Morton, Richard’s bitterest en enemy. Sir Thomas’s account was
from the view of someone who hated Richard and is therefor considered biased. As a historian it is
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