Alice Perrers

Alice Perrers is represented in the linked historical fiction through court politics and dynastic power, political ambition and government, and social change and the pressures of ordinary life. These works approach the figure through the surrounding events, relationships and political conflicts rather than through a standalone biography.

In Anne O’Brien’s The King’s Concubine, Alice Perrers rises from obscure origins to enter the household of Queen Philippa of Hainault.