(1961) The day Shakespeare died (1961) The flowering hawthorn (1962) Guy Fawkes (1964) The modern Mass: a reversion to the reforms of Cranmer (1969) The cardinal in England (1970) The Florentine woman (1970) The last of the Valois (1971) Paris is worth a mass (1971) Kind Kit: an informal biography of Christopher Marlowe (1972) Catherine de' Medici (1973) Lorenzo the Magnificent (1974) Historical enigmas (1974) The princess a nun!: a novel without fiction (1978; completed by Julian Rathbone) 1901 births 1978 deaths Converts to Roman Catholicism from Anglicanism 20th-century British dramatists and playwrights 20th-century British historians British male dramatists and playwrights 20th-century British male writers