Tag Archives: tudor fiction
My Enemy, the Queen!
Our book today is the tense and yet lush Tudor novel My Enemy the Queen, which that champion quiller of historical romances, Victoria Holt, wrote in a free afternoon one day in 1978. ‘Victoria Holt’ was a pseudonym for an Englishwoman named Eleanor Hibbert, who was born in 1906, endured a brief, tedious interval learning [...]
The Ivy Crown!
She was Henry VIII’s sixth and last wife, and when he was dead, she tried for a happiness of her own.
Eight Great Books – by Women!
One good list deserves another! This time, it’s eight great novels by women!
Queen Catherine! (no, not that one)(no, not that one either)
Our two books today are historical novels dealing with the same figure: Catherine Parr, the staid, prudish hickory stick who was the last wife of Henry VIII. Readers who have a nodding familiarity with Tudor history will likely be more familiar with any of the five wives who preceded this one – there’s the Rightful [...]
Keeping Up With The Tudors: The Other Boleyn Girl!
Our book today is the one that started it all: Philippa Gregory’s totally unexpected runaway bestseller, The Other Boleyn Girl (originally titled The Other Boleyn Sister – obviously it was feared that historically illiterate American audiences would feel they were reading a sequel, as with The Madness of King George III)(although I myself actually prefer [...]
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