My Lady of Orange
A Dutch Revolt Romance of Courtly Intrigue, Religious Conflict, and Resistance to Spanish DominionBy H. C. Bailey
Length4h 54m
About this audiobook
My Lady of Orange is a historical romance that transforms the political and dynastic world associated with the House of Orange into a narrative of personal allegiance, emotional conflict, and moral choice. Bailey combines period colour with the brisk movement of popular fiction, balancing courtly intrigue and public affairs against the private experience of a heroine negotiating power, loyalty, and love. Its historical imagination belongs to the late-Victorian and Edwardian tradition of the costume novel: research supplies an intelligible political framework, while readable dialogue, suspenseful reversals, and vivid characterization keep the past dramatically immediate. The result is not merely antiquarian reconstruction, but an exploration of how individuals survive within the machinery of monarchy and faction. H. C. Bailey was an English novelist and journalist whose later reputation rests chiefly on his ingenious Reggie Fortune detective stories. His professional familiarity with narrative pacing, observation, and the management of suspense is already valuable here, even as he works in the historical-romance mode. Bailey's interest in institutional power, ethical responsibility, and concealed motives—concerns that would become central to his detective fiction—helps explain the novel's union of political history with psychological drama. Readers interested in historical fiction, dynastic politics, and the development of British popular narrative will find My Lady of Orange especially rewarding. It offers an accessible entrance into the period while preserving the tension, ethical seriousness, and narrative craft characteristic of Bailey's best work.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance, Historical Fiction
Length4 hrs 54 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 15, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The History of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea
2Chapter I. An Audience of Orange
3Chapter II. The Use of a Bridge
4Chapter III. The Postern Gate
5Chapter IV. A Council of Despair
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6Chapter V. The Lion's Den
7Chapter VI. The Bargain of Alva
8Chapter VII. "Man Against Time"
9Chapter VIII. The Ways of Deserters
10Chapter IX. Hirelings' Battles
11Chapter X. In the Garden
12Chapter XI. Alva's Revenge
13Chapter XII. A Chance for Life
14Chapter XIII. The Garden Again
15Chapter XIV. The Guests of the Yellow Pig
16Chapter XV. The Justice of Diedrich Sonoy
17Chapter XVI. The Last Ally
18Chapter XVII. A Changed Man
19Chapter XVIII. The Latest News
20Chapter XIX. The Horse and I
21Chapter XX. A Soldier's Wages
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