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Showing posts with label tudor women. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tudor women. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Anne of Cleves: Henry's Luckiest Wife

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I had the pleasure of reading a new (and soon to be published) work by David featuring the fourth wife of Henry VIII of England and entit...
Wednesday, October 31, 2012

The Inventive Translations of Mary Sidney Herbert

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From Slate dot com : It's hard to imagine a modern family as prominent in as many ways as Philip Sidney and his sister, Mary Sidney...
Friday, December 23, 2011

Elizabeth I & Her Toyboy Essex

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From Mail Online : In his major new examination of the Elizabethans, historian A.N. Wilson details the passionate love Queen Elizabeth I fel...
Saturday, November 19, 2011

The Woman Formerly Known As Margaret Tudor

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From The Guardian : Owned by the Revd WH Wayne from at least 1886; sold by Wayne to A Smith of Albert Gate Art Galleries, from whom it was ...
Monday, August 29, 2011

Elizabeth I - Virgin Queen? She was a right royal minx!

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From Mail Online : The England that the first Queen Elizabeth reigned over so gloriously for 45 years was obsessed with sex and awash with p...
Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Courting Diaster: Leanda de Lisle Reviews

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From the Literary Review : Henry VIII boasted to ambassadors of his vivacious eighteen-month-old daughter Mary, 'this child never cries...
Saturday, August 16, 2008

Review: The Tudor Sisters

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Making a trip to the local library today, I came away with a mixed bag of 10 books - a mix of non-fiction and fiction - but all to do with h...
Friday, April 25, 2008

"The King's Whore"

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I was reading Robin Maxwell's "The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn" (it was a very slow week, and as everyone had been raving abou...
Monday, June 4, 2007

Katherine Parr

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Katherine Parr (c.1512 - 1548) Sixth Queen of Henry VIII of England. Katherine was twice widowed - both men elderly and left her considerabl...