Edwy the Fair is a retelling of the story of Eadwig, who was King of the English from 955 through 959 AD. He ascended the throne at 16 on the death of Eadred, the previous King. Eadred had no children, and Eadwig was the oldest eligible relative of the House of Wessex.
Eadwig's reign began with difficulty, as he quarreled with the Bishop of Dunstan (later Archbishop of Canterbury and finally Saint Dunstan) over his choice to pay court to a young woman rather than attend an important meeting of state. The woman became his wife, but Eadwig's troubles were not over.
Author Biography
Augustine David Crake (1836-1890) was an English cleric and author, known for devotional works, and for juvenile historical fiction that has been compared to the books of John Mason Neale. Crake was the author of a long series of historical fiction works, about the church in Britain, using Oxfordshire and Berkshire settings; they were based on stories he had told at Bloxham school. In 1873 he published a popular History of the Church under the Roman Empire.
