dc.contributor.advisor | Rud, Rita | |
dc.creator | Colvin, Jessica | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-08-03T19:22:34Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-08-03T19:22:34Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2014 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2376/5327 | |
dc.description | This thesis was completed at the Washington State University Honors College. It received a ranking of "passed with distinction." | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | History recorded little of Elizabeth Comyn’s life, but what it has recorded gives us a glimpse of a young woman who suffered and achieved much in an era where the acts and deeds of women went largely overlooked and unrecorded. I stumbled across Elizabeth’s story while researching my own ancestry and discovering that my maiden name, Cummings, is likely a derivative of Comyn. After a bit of reading I became acquainted with Elizabeth’s father, John Comyn III, Lord of Badenoch, who was murdered by Robert the Bruce on February 10th, 1306 at a church in Dumfries, Scotland. At first, I thought that would be the end of my research as the Comyn clan took a sharp decline in prominence after that, but then I found a quote about Elizabeth explaining that she had inherited a large amount of land but that it was stolen from her by Hugh Despenser, one of King Edward II’s favorites. This was all the information I had to go on when I decided to pursue this creative project of writing a historical novel about Elizabeth Comyn’s life and using a three chapter excerpt as basis for my honors thesis. After hours and days of library and internet research I slowly accumulated enough information to begin writing this novel. Applying the techniques I had learned about the genre of historical fiction, I began to craft plot, character, scene, and dialogue from my long list of quotes and references. After writing and even more revising, I completed the three chapters present in this thesis and, which I hope, will become the beginning of a much longer novel detailing the life of Elizabeth Comyn. | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | Honors College, Washington State University | en_US |
dc.language.iso | English | en_US |
dc.rights | In copyright | |
dc.rights | Publicly accessible | |
dc.rights | openAccess | |
dc.rights.uri | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | |
dc.rights.uri | http://www.ndltd.org/standards/metadata | |
dc.rights.uri | http://purl.org/eprint/accessRights/OpenAccess | |
dc.subject | Elizabeth Comyn, Historical fiction, Creative writing, Scotland--History | en_US |
dc.title | Elizabeth Comyn: A Historical Novel | |
dc.type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation | |