Thomas Malory

Thomas Malory, a knight of Warwickshire elected to Parliament in 1445, was born around 1415 and spent much of his adult life in prison, under accusations of ambush, extortion and rape; it was in detention that he completed his great narrative around 1469. Caxton printed it in 1485, dividing it into twenty-one books, and the discovery of a manuscript at Winchester in 1934 showed the extent of the printer's interventions. He died on 14 March 1471 and was buried with the Franciscans, near Newgate prison.

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