Tag: Tudors
The Queen’s Governess
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2010/03/15/the-queens-governess/
Title: The Queen’s Governess Author: Karen Harper Publisher: Putnam, January 2010 Summary: Behind every great queen is a surrogate mother. In her latest novel, The Queen’s Governess, Karen Harper, provides the story of Katherine Champernowne Ashley who brought up the young Elizabeth. Katherine Ashely stood by Elizabeth during...
Lady Jane Grey
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2009/10/27/lady-jane-grey/
Title: Lady Jane Grey: A Tudor Mystery Author: Eric Ives Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, October 2009 Summary: Lady Jane Grey, granddaughter of Henry VIII’s younger sister Mary Tudor, is probably the most tragic victim of the Tudor dynasty, ending her life on the scaffold at the...
The Other Queen
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2008/10/13/the-other-queen/
Title: The Other Queen Author: Philippa Gregory Publisher: Touchstone, September, 2008 Summary: Mary, Queen of Scots, might be the most infamous royal in all of European history: She led a life of intrigue and scandal that landed her, at age 26 and a widow twice-over, in the hands...
Young Bess
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2008/07/22/young-bess/
Title: Young Bess Author: Margaret Irwin Summary: Young Bess provides a fictional, though grounded in historical fact, novel on the life of Queen Elizabeth when she was simply the Lady Elizabeth, daughter of Henry VIII and sister of Edward VI. Young Bess describes Elizabeth’s chequered...