Background
She was the daughter of Greek scholar and historian Nicholas P. Vlachos.
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The adventures of a Scotch border-lord, Patrick Hepburn, during the reigns of Henry VII of England and James III of Scotland, who took what he wanted, for not even a king could give "The Hepburn" what he most desired, the love of Lady Jane Gordon.
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Jan Wescott has chosen for her newest work the tempestuous love story between Edward IV, the tall youthful warrior-king, and Elizabeth Woodville, the beautiful widowed mother of two young children, an "enemy" Lancastrian in the War of the Roses-a match that was to have tragic repercussions for all England. As with all of Miss Westcott's novels, THE WHITE ROSE is filled with dramatic and vivid scenes and is researched so thoroughly it can stand as a full-fledged biography. She is at her best when writing a love story, and here she has one of the most extraordinary love stories in English history. Like all women in the realm, Elizabeth loved the king but refused to bear him a child out of wedlock. And so their marriage, conducted in secret, was forced to stand the test of not only personal but political pressures. Upon learning of it, the powerful Earl of Warwick, who had already arranged Edward's more advantageous betrothal to a French princess, was incited to take up arms against his own king! THE WHITE ROSE, symbol of the House of York, is a sweeping novel of high drama, passion, and intrigue; spanning thirty years of bloody English history, it is filled with a cast of extraordinary characters-mad King Henry VI; Edward's treacherous brother, the villainous Richard III; the doomed princes in the tower. Unquestionably the most ambitious work by Jan Westcott, whose previous novels have won raves.
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She was the daughter of Greek scholar and historian Nicholas P. Vlachos.
She attended Swarthmore College.
Her first novel, The Border Lord, appeared in 1946. Westcott specialized in writing historical romance novels. While some reviewers praised her attention to detail, with one notice for Captain Barney stating that " gets her inspiration from the Encyclopedia Britannica", others questioned the historical accuracy of her books
Nevertheless, The Border Lord became a Literary Guild selection, and The Queen"s Grace was serialized in the Ladies" Home Journal.
She has been cited as a source of inspiration by romance novelists Karen Harper, Shirlee Busbee, Susanna Kearsley, and Bertrice Small. Her papers are archived at the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University.
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