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Jacquetta is a main character in Philippa Gregory's 2009 novel The White Queen, a fictionalized account of the life of her eldest daughter Elizabeth. In the novel, Jacquetta is portrayed as having indeed dabbled quite a bit in witchcraft, displaying, what would seem to be, actual power. She is also the main protagonist in Philippa Gregory's 2011 novel The Lady of the Rivers.
Jacquetta is also an important character in Margaret Frazer's fifth "Player Joliffe" novel, A Play of Treachery (2009). The story is set in 1435-6, after the death of her first husband, John, Duke of Bedford. This historical novel tells a historically plausible tale regarding her marriage to Sir Richard Woodville. There is no mention of witchcraft in this novel.
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