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Author : Marie Sandeford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780953458417
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (584 download)
Download or read book Tales of Tudor Women written by Marie Sandeford and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elizabeth Norton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1681774909
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (817 download)
Download or read book The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women written by Elizabeth Norton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-07-04 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The turbulent Tudor Age never fails to capture the imagination. But what was it truly like to be a woman during this era? The Tudor period conjures up images of queens and noblewomen in elaborate court dress; of palace intrigue and dramatic politics. But if you were a woman, it was also a time when death during childbirth was rife; when marriage was usually a legal contract, not a matter for love, and the education you could hope to receive was minimal at best. Yet the Tudor century was also dominated by powerful and dynamic women in a way that no era had been before. Historian Elizabeth Norton explores the life cycle of the Tudor woman, from childhood to old age, through the diverging examples of women such as Elizabeth Tudor, Henry VIII’s sister; Cecily Burbage, Elizabeth's wet nurse; Mary Howard, widowed but influential at court; Elizabeth Boleyn, mother of a controversial queen; and Elizabeth Barton, a peasant girl who would be lauded as a prophetess. Their stories are interwoven with studies of topics ranging from Tudor toys to contraception to witchcraft, painting a portrait of the lives of queens and serving maids, nuns and harlots, widows and chaperones. Norton brings this vibrant period to colorful life in an evocative and insightful social history.
Author : Carolyn Meyer
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780152058760
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (587 download)
Download or read book Young Royals Boxed Set written by Carolyn Meyer and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2006-09-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brimming with intrigue, romance, and adventure, a collection fit for a queen contains tales of four formidable young women who were wives or daughters of King Henry VIII in the titles, Mary, Bloody Mary; Beware, Princess Elizabeth; Doomed Queen Anne; and Patience, Princess Catherine.
Author : Laurien Gardner
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440629404
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (46 download)
Download or read book A Lady Raised High written by Laurien Gardner and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-04-01 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A well-written account of the relationship that changed England so…Fans of Tudor tales will want to read [this book].”—Midwest Book Review Frances Pierce is a simple, plain country girl who enters Lady Anne Boleyn’s circle after shielding her from an angry mob. Anne is beloved by King Henry VIII, and queen in all but name. And Henry is determined to put aside his wife Catherine, marry Anne, and mak her his lawful queen—no matter the consequences. Frances delights Anne with her poetry and her forthright ways, and soon becomes a favorite. Dazzled by her new life and the glamour of the court, and besotted with Anne’s brother George, she pays scant attention to the intrigues that swirl around her mistress. But when the king’s favor shifts, Frances will learn just how quickly those who rise far and fast can meet their downfall. “A remarkable story, rich in historical background.”—The Best Reviews
Author : Carolyn Meyer
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547940629
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (479 download)
Download or read book Beware, Princess Elizabeth written by Carolyn Meyer and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2002-09-01 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “gripping historical drama” that tells the story of young Elizabeth Tudor’s journey to the throne—and her fierce rivalry with her half sister (School Library Journal). Imprisonment. Betrayal. Lost love. Murder. What more must a princess endure? Elizabeth Tudor’s teenage and young adult years during the turbulent reigns of Edward and then Mary Tudor are hardly those of a fairy-tale princess. Her mother has been beheaded by Elizabeth's own father, Henry VIII. Her jealous half sister, Mary, has her locked away in the Tower of London. And her only love interest betrays her in his own quest for the throne… Told in the voice of the young Elizabeth and ending when she is crowned queen, this novel in the exciting Young Royals series explores the relationship between two sisters who became mortal enemies. New York Times-bestselling author Carolyn Meyer has written an intriguing historical tale that reveals the deep-seated rivalry between a determined girl who became Elizabeth I, one of England's most powerful monarchs—and the sister who tried everything to stop her.
Author : Sylvia Barbara Soberton
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781507764985
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (649 download)
Download or read book The Forgotten Tudor Women written by Sylvia Barbara Soberton and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-02-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone knows that Henry VIII had six wives, two sisters and two daughters. All of these women received attention in academic circles and are the subjects of countless biographies. Not many people, however, realize that Henry VIII also had a niece, a daughter-in-law and a mistress, who were close friends, but who today remain on the fringes of history. Margaret Douglas was the daughter of Henry VIII's elder sister Margaret, Queen of Scotland. She was imprisoned thrice, and each time, as she admitted, "not for matters of treason, but for love matters". Her legacy includes marrying her son to Mary, Queen of Scots, and playing the doting grandmother to King James VI and I. Mary Howard was the daughter of Thomas Howard, third Duke of Norfolk, leading peer of the Tudor court. She served as maid of honour to her first cousin, Anne Boleyn, and married Henry VIII's illegitimate but acknowledged son, Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond. Widowed at the age of seventeen, Mary fought for her rightful jointure and was, by her father's admission, "too wise for a woman". Mary Shelton, like Mary Howard, was related to Anne Boleyn and became her servant at court. Beautiful and skilled in poetry, Mary attracted Henry VIII's attention and became his mistress in 1535, but many don't realize how important her contributions were to the literary scene of the time. This book moves Margaret Douglas, Mary Howard and Mary Shelton from the footnotes of history into the spotlight, where they deserve to shine along with their more famous contemporaries.
Author : Miranda Kaufmann
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1786071851
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (86 download)
Download or read book Black Tudors written by Miranda Kaufmann and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2018 A Book of the Year for the Evening Standard and the Observer A black porter publicly whips a white Englishman in the hall of a Gloucestershire manor house. A Moroccan woman is baptised in a London church. Henry VIII dispatches a Mauritanian diver to salvage lost treasures from the Mary Rose. From long-forgotten records emerge the remarkable stories of Africans who lived free in Tudor England… They were present at some of the defining moments of the age. They were christened, married and buried by the Church. They were paid wages like any other Tudors. The untold stories of the Black Tudors, dazzlingly brought to life by Kaufmann, will transform how we see this most intriguing period of history.
Author : Marie Sandeford
Publisher : Anchor Books
ISBN 13 : 9780953458424
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (584 download)
Download or read book Long-Lived Ladies and More Tudor Tales written by Marie Sandeford and published by Anchor Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alison Plowden
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752467166
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
Download or read book Tudor Women written by Alison Plowden and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-07-31 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tudor era belongs to its women. No other period of English history has produced so many notable and interesting women, and into other periods have they so powerfully influenced the course of political events. Mary Tudor, Elizabeth I and, at moments of high drama, Mary Queen of Scots dominated the political scene for more than half a century, while in the previous fifty years Henry VIII's marital escapades brought six more women to the centre of attention. In this book the women of the royal family are the central characters; the royal women set the style and between them they provide a dazzling variety of personalities as well as illustrating almost every aspect of life as it affected women in Tudor England. We know what they ate, how they dressed, the books they read and the letters they wrote. Even the greatest of them suffered the universal legal and physiological disabilities of womanhood - some survived them, some went under. Now revised and updated, Alison Plowden's beautifully written account of the women behind the scenes and at the forefront of sixteenth-century English history will be welcomed by anyone interested in exploring this popular period of history from the point of view of the women who made it.
Author : Rosemary Griggs
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1800466110
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (4 download)
Download or read book A Woman of Noble Wit written by Rosemary Griggs and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2021-09-08 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few women of her time lived to see their name in print. But Katherine was no ordinary woman. She was Sir Walter Raleigh’s mother. This is her story.
Author : Elizabeth Norton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1784081744
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (84 download)
Download or read book The Lives of Tudor Women written by Elizabeth Norton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-06 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The turbulent Tudor age never fails to capture the imagination. But what was it actually like to be a woman during this period? This was a time when death in infancy or during childbirth was rife; when marriage was usually a legal contract, not a matter for love, and the education of women was minimal at best. Yet the Tudor century was also dominated by powerful and characterful women in a way that no era had been before. Elizabeth Norton explores the seven ages of the Tudor woman, from childhood to old age, through the diverging examples of women such as Elizabeth Tudor, Henry VIII's sister who died in infancy; Cecily Burbage, Elizabeth's wet nurse; Mary Howard, widowed but influential at court; Elizabeth Boleyn, mother of a controversial queen; and Elizabeth Barton, a peasant girl who would be lauded as a prophetess. Their stories are interwoven with studies of topics ranging from Tudor toys to contraception to witchcraft, painting a portrait of the lives of queens and serving maids, nuns and harlots, widows and chaperones.
Author : Leanda de Lisle
Publisher : Public Affairs
ISBN 13 : 1610393635
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Tudor written by Leanda de Lisle and published by Public Affairs. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tudors are England’s most notorious royal family. But, as Leanda de Lisle’s gripping new history reveals, they are a family still more extraordinary than the one we thought we knew. The Tudor canon typically starts with the Battle of Bosworth in 1485, before speeding on to Henry VIII and the Reformation. But this leaves out the family’s obscure Welsh origins, the ordinary man known as Owen Tudor who would fall (literally) into a Queen’s lap—and later her bed. It passes by the courage of Margaret Beaufort, the pregnant thirteen-year-old girl who would help found the Tudor dynasty, and the childhood and painful exile of her son, the future Henry VII. It ignores the fact that the Tudors were shaped by their past—those parts they wished to remember and those they wished to forget. By creating a full family portrait set against the background of this past, de Lisle enables us to see the Tudor dynasty in its own terms, and presents new perspectives and revelations on key figures and events. De Lisle discovers a family dominated by remarkable women doing everything possible to secure its future; shows why the princes in the Tower had to vanish; and reexamines the bloodiness of Mary’s reign, Elizabeth’s fraught relationships with her cousins, and the true significance of previously overlooked figures. Throughout the Tudor story, Leanda de Lisle emphasizes the supreme importance of achieving peace and stability in a violent and uncertain world, and of protecting and securing the bloodline. Tudor is bristling with religious and political intrigue but at heart is a thrilling story of one family’s determined and flamboyant ambition.
Author : Elizabeth Norton
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445618087
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book The Boleyn Women written by Elizabeth Norton and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2013-07-15 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The family of Anne Boleyn, the infamous wife of Henry VIII, appeared from nowhere at the end of the fourteenth century and rose to prominence at the beginning of a century that would end with a Boleyn woman, Elizabeth I, on the throne.
Author : Kristina Nelson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781432732202
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (322 download)
Download or read book Tudor Women written by Kristina Nelson and published by . This book was released on 2009-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can the aristocratic Tudor women have been the first modern wives and lovers? Tudor England has long been romanticized as the haven for courtly love and courtly intrigue, hand in hand as England underwent substantial political and cultural change. The women of Tudor England, many of whom meet with untimely and often tragic fates, are often listed as the price of this transformation, women who were caught up in the maelstrom of politics and upheaval. Nonetheless, these women possess a quality often overlooked or too easily categorized into dismissal - that of love in its modern sense. In many ways, the Tudor women manifested a modern, humanistic understanding of love, one that treated love as an end in and of itself, and of sufficient merit to trump questions of politics, social status, and even financial security. Through an historical investigation into the lives of these women, this analysis proceeds to tell the story of this modern love in Tudor times, and in so doing to recover the sense of agency these women possessed. Case studies begin with the stories of Mary and Margaret Tudor, then move to the "scandalous" Anne Boleyn and her sister Mary, following with the Grey sisters, Mary, Queen of Scots, and finally concluding with the tragic life of Arabella Stuart. Through it all, this analysis tells the story of love searched for, pursued, and gained as well as love yearned for, denied, and lost. These are not happy tales for the most part, but what these tales tell, when woven together, is the multi-faceted story of a unique period of English history, one that would begin with Henry's break with the Pope and conclude with the reign of the virgin Queen. It is a story of women who took chances, gained riches, and suffered the costs of that elusive quality that we moderns know today as love. It is our concept of love that we may owe in no small part to the women of Tudor England.
Author : Terry Deary
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472952138
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)
Download or read book Tudor Tales: The Maid, the Witch and the Cruel Queen written by Terry Deary and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-07-13 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of Horrible Histories, named 'the outstanding children's non-fiction author of the 20th century' by Books For Keeps _______________ Ideal for readers aged 7+ The day Queen Mary Tudor came to town was the most terrifying day of young Meg's life. The Queen is also known as 'Bloody Mary' because she has anyone who doesn't go to church burned. Everyone wants to impress her, and what better way than by burning a witch. But the “witch" in question, Old Nan, is more clever and cunning than the townspeople who hunt her... Terry Deary's Tudor Tales explore the infamous world of the Tudors through the eyes of children who could have lived at the time. These stories feature real people and take place in some of the most recognisable Tudor settings. This new edition features notes for the reader to help extend learning and exploration of the historical period. _______________ 'Bubbling with wit, language play and robust dialogue....just the right mix of ingredients to trigger young readers' interest in all things historical' - Books For Keeps
Author : E. Knight
Publisher : Lake Union Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781477830901
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (39 download)
Download or read book My Lady Viper written by E. Knight and published by Lake Union Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "May, 1536. The Queen is dead. Long live the Queen. When Anne Boleyn falls to the executioner's ax on a cold spring morning, yet another Anne vows she will survive in the snake-pit court of Henry VIII. But at what cost? Lady Anne Seymour knows her family hangs by a thread. If her sister-in-law Jane Seymour cannot give the King a son, she will be executed or set aside, and her family with her. Anne throws herself into the deadly and intoxicating intrigue of the Tudor court, determined at any price to see the new queen's marriage a success and the Seymour family elevated to supreme power. But Anne's machinations will earn her a reputation as a viper, and she must decide if her family's rise is worth the loss of her own soul ..."--Publisher description.
Author : Sylvia Barbara Soberton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781726627153
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (271 download)
Download or read book The Forgotten Tudor Women written by Sylvia Barbara Soberton and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Anne Seymour, Jane Dudley and Elisabeth Parr all have their own unique stories to tell. Born into the most turbulent period of England’s history, these women’s lives interplayed with the great dramas of the Tudor age, and their stories deserve to be told independently of their husbands. Anne Seymour served all of Henry VIII’s six wives and brushed with treason more than once, but she died in her bed as a wealthy old matriarch. Jane Dudley was a wife and mother who fought for her family until her last breath. Elisabeth Parr, sister-in-law of Queen Katherine Parr, married for love and became Elizabeth I’s favourite lady-in-waiting. The Tudor age was a hazardous time for ambitious women: courtly life exposed them to “pride, envy, indignation, scorning and derision”, executions were part of everyday life, death in childbirth was a real possibility and plagues sweeping regularly through the country could wipe out entire generations of families. Yet Anne, Jane and Elisabeth lived through all this and left their indelible marks on history. It’s high time for these women’s stories to be heard."--Back cover.
