White Fire single work   short story   war literature  
Issue Details: First known date: 1945... 1945 White Fire
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Idealised depiction of 'Eadgyth' - Edith of Wessex, daughter of Earl Godwin, sister of Harold, wife of Edward the Confessor, who while immured in a convent inspires the gardener's boy to a Platonic love in which he dies defending Harold at Hastings.

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