Mary Tudor: England's First Queen

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 feb 2010

In the summer of 1553, against all odds, Mary Tudor was the first woman to be crowned Queen of England.

Anna Whitelock's absorbing debut tells the remarkable story of a woman who was a princess one moment, and a disinherited bastard the next. It tells of her Spanish heritage and the unbreakable bond between Mary and her mother, Katherine of Aragon; of her childhood, adolescence, rivalry with her sister Elizabeth and finally her womanhood. Throughout her life Mary was a fighter, battling to preserve her integrity and her right to hear the Catholic mass. Finally, she fought for the throne. The Mary that emerges from this groundbreaking biography is not the weak-willed failure of traditional narratives, but a complex figure of immense courage, determination and humanity.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781408800782
ISBN-10: 1408800780
Pagini: 384
Ilustrații: col. Illustrations, col. ports., geneal. table
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Paperbacks
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

For anyone interested in Tudor history, and for fans of Georgiana by Amanda Foreman, Perdita by Paula Byrne, Courtesans by Katie Hickman and lovers of Philippa Gregory's novels

Notă biografică

Anna Whitelock gained her PhD in History from Corpus Christi College, Cambridge in 2004 with a thesis on the court of Mary I. Her articles and book reviews on various aspects of Tudor history have appeared in publications including the Guardian, the Times Literary Supplement and BBC History. She has taught at Cambridge University and is now a lecturer in Early Modern History at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Recenzii

'An impressive and powerful debut'
Whitelock offers an unforgettable picture of Mary alone in darkness, waiting for labour to begin for a child that never was . . . Her book gives us a woman who met impossible challenges with courage and conviction'
'A rollercoaster of a story'
'Whitelock's fine new biography tells, instead, the story of the road that Mary did take, from cradle to throne'

Descriere

A page-turning, revisionist history of the villainised and misunderstood Mary Tudor, the first queen of England

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