Kate Sedley

{{Short description|English novelist (1926–2022)}}

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| pseudonym = Kate Sedley
Brenda Honeyman

| birth_name = Brenda Margaret Lilian Honeyman

| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1926|07|30}}{{cite book | url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G2-3057000031.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160409103703/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G2-3057000031.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=9 April 2016 | title=Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series}}

| birth_place = Bristol, England

| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2022|02|28|1926|07|30}}

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| occupation = Author

| language = English

| nationality = British

| alma_mater = Cambridge University

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| genre = Historical crime novels

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| spouse = Ronald John Clarke

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Brenda Margaret Lilian Clarke (née Honeyman, 30 July 1926 – 28 February 2022), better known by the pen-name of Kate Sedley, was an English historical novelist.{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=L0IgAAAAIBAJ&sjid=vX8EAAAAIBAJ&pg=6311,2963791&dq=kate-sedley&hl=en|title=Impostor or not and tragedy resurrected|last=Philips|first=Helen|date=17 December 2001|work=Sarasota Herald-Tribune|page=4B|accessdate=1 June 2011}}

She was born in Bristol in 1926 and educated at The Red Maids' School, Westbury-on-Trym. She was married and had a son and a daughter, and three grandchildren. Her medieval historical whodunnits feature Roger the Chapman, who has given up a monk's cell for the freedom of peddling his wares on the road.{{Cite web | url=https://www.orderofbooks.com/characters/roger-the-chapman/ | title=Order of Roger The Chapman Books | access-date=2024-07-20 | website=www.orderofbooks.com}} She died on 28 February 2022, at the age of 95.{{cite web |title=Brenda Margaret Lilian Clarke |url=https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/search-results |website=Probate Search |access-date=19 December 2023}}{{cite web |title=Brends Clarke née Honeyman |url=https://rmsociety.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Brenda-Clarke-adapted.pdf |website=The Red Maids Society |access-date=19 December 2023}}