Review of Dr Nicola Clark, The Waiting Game (W&N, 2024)
A comprehensive look at the women who served Henry VIII’s queens, describing them both at work and at play.
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A comprehensive look at the women who served Henry VIII’s queens, describing them both at work and at play.
My review of Mid-Tudor Queenship and Memory: The Making and Re-making of Lady Jane Grey and Mary I.
This book focuses entirely on Anne’s last year. It tries to answer the question of how a woman who, in the Spring of 1535 if she was not entirely secure in her position as she had…
Carole Levin’s contribution is a move away from a recent focus on cultural aspects of Elizabeth’s reign, such as Cole’s The Portable Queen: Elizabeth I and the Politics of…
The book is a thorough examination of the part that translations, dedications, and gift-giving, played in negotiations for status between the daughters of Henry VIII, before and…