Best Historical Novels About Jane Lane, Lady Fisher

Jane Lane, Lady Fisher

1626–1689

Jane Lane was a Staffordshire gentlewoman who helped Charles II escape after the royalist defeat at Worcester in 1651. Because she possessed a military pass to travel to Somerset, Charles disguised himself as her servant and rode with her across country.

Jane later fled to exile when her role became known and returned after the Restoration, receiving royal gifts and a pension. Her family preserved accounts and objects connected with the escape. Jane Lane, Lady Fisher was born in Walsall.

Georgette Heyer’s Royal Escape makes Jane Lane one of the essential Royalists who help Charles II evade capture after Worcester, with Charles travelling as her servant so that her permitted journey can carry him through Parliamentarian-controlled country. Charles Spencer’s To Catch a King reconstructs the historical escape in detail, tracing Jane’s part in the network of safe houses, disguises and changes of plan that eventually enabled the defeated king to reach the coast and escape to France.

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Restoration1660–1685 CE

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Historical Romances in Order

by Georgette Heyer 9 books 4.3(16,123)

This collection brings together Georgette Heyer’s historical novels set outside her main Regency-romance sequence. The settings range from medieval England and France to the Norman Conquest, Elizabethan maritime conflict, the escape of Charles II and the Peninsular War. The list follows the ordering supplied by the Fantastic Fiction…