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  • Henry VIII's Controversial Aunt, Honor Lisle

    Her Life, Letters and influence on The Tudor Court

    by Amy Licence ...
    The first complete biography of Honor, presenting the story of a significant Tudor woman against the backdrop of immense political change.The life of Honor, Lady Lisle, follows a dizzying narrative arc. Born into a West Country family, her second marriage propelled her into Anne Boleyn's court, as the new step-aunt to Henry VIII.Her husband, Arthur, was the illegitimate son of Edward IV, bearing ... Read more

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  • Red Roses

    Blanche of Gaunt to Margaret Beaufort

    by Amy Licence ...
    The Wars of the Roses were not just fought by men on the battlefield. Behind the scenes, there were daughters, wives, mistresses, mothers and queens whose lives and influences helped shape the most dramatic of English conflicts.This book traces the story of women on the Lancastrian side, from the children borne by Blanche, wife of John of Gaunt, through the turbulent fifteenth century to the ... Read more

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  • The Sixteenth Century in 100 Women

    by Amy Licence ...
    "Mini-biographies of women from every walk of life and every corner of the globe . . . an informative, refreshing, and unique approach to the 16th century." — Adventures of a Tudor NerdThis retelling of the sixteenth century introduces the reader to a gallery of amazing women from queens to commoners, who navigated the patriarchal world in memorable and life-changing ways all around the world. Amy ... Read more

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  • The Six Wives & Many Mistresses of Henry VIII

    The Women’s Stories

    by Amy Licence ...
    For a King renowned for his love life, Henry VIII has traditionally been depicted as something of a prude, but the story may have been different for the women who shared his bed. How did they take the leap from courtier to lover – perhaps even to wife? What was Henry really like as a lover? Henry’s women were uniquely placed to experience the tension between his chivalric ideals and the lusts of ... Read more

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  • The Lost Kings

    Lancaster, York and Tudor

    by Amy Licence ...
    **A gripping exploration of power, ambition, and untimely death in England's royal houses.**This book delves into the lives of ten young men whose destinies were intertwined with the tumultuous events of the Wars of the Roses and the rise of the Tudors. From battlefields to the Tower of London, their stories reveal the brutal realities of medieval life and the high stakes of dynastic inheritance ... Read more

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  • Henry VI & Margaret of Anjou

    A Marriage of Unequals

    by Amy Licence ...
    "An illuminating and entertaining read . . . an analytical assessment of the two figures who led the Lancastrian faction during the Wars of the Roses." — History . . . The Interesting Bits!He became king before his first birthday, inheriting a vast empire from his military hero father; she was the daughter of a king without power, who made an unexpected marriage at the age of fifteen. Almost ... Read more

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  • Anne Boleyn

    Adultery, Heresy, Desire

    by Amy Licence ...
    Anne Boleyn’s unconventional beauty inspired poets - and she so entranced Henry VIII with her wit, allure and style that he was prepared to set aside his wife of over twenty years and risk his immortal soul. Her sister had already been the king’s mistress, but the other Boleyn girl followed a different path. For years the lovers waited; did they really remain chaste? Did Anne love Henry, or was ... Read more

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  • Cecily Neville

    Mother of Kings

    by Amy Licence ...
    Known to be proud, regal and beautiful, Cecily Neville was born in the year of the great English victory at Agincourt and survived long enough to witness the arrival of the future Henry VIII, her great-grandson. Her life spanned most of the fifteenth century. Cecily’s marriage to Richard, Duke of York, was successful, even happy, and she travelled with him wherever his career dictated, bearing his ... Read more

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  • Living in Squares, Loving in Triangles

    The Lives and Loves of Viginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group

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    Sisters Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf have long been celebrated for their central roles in the development of modernism in art and literature. Vanessa’s experimental work places her at the vanguard of early twentieth-century art, as does her role in helping introduce many key names – Cézanne, Matisse, Picasso – to an unsuspecting public in 1910. Virginia took these artistic innovations and ... Read more

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  • In Bed with the Tudors

    The Sex Lives of a Dynasty from Elizabeth of York to Elizabeth I

    by Amy Licence ...
    Series series In Bed with the ...
    Learn what went on behind closed doors in the Tudor court. Illegitimate children, adulterous queens, impotent kings, and a whole dynasty resting on their shoulders. Sex and childbirth were quite literally a matter of life or death for the Tudors - Elizabeth of York died in childbirth, two of Henry VIII's queens were beheaded for infidelity, and Elizabeth I's elective virginity signalled the demise ... Read more

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  • Catherine of Aragon

    An Intimate Life of Henry VIII's True Wife

    by Amy Licence ...
    Catherine of Aragon continues to fascinate readers 500 years after she became Henry VIII's first queen. Her life was one of passion and determination, of suffering and hope, but ultimately it is a tragic love story, as circumstances conspired against her. Having lost her first husband, Henry's elder brother Prince Arthur, she endured years of ill health and penury, to make a dazzling second match ... Read more

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  • Elizabeth of York

    The Forgotten Tudor Queen

    by Amy Licence ...
    As Tudors go, Elizabeth of York is relatively unknown. Yet she was the mother of the dynasty, with her children becoming King of England (Henry VIII) and Queens of Scotland (Margaret) and France (Mary Rose) and her direct descendants included three Tudor monarchs, two executed queens and, ultimately, the Stuart royal family. Although her offspring took England into the early modern era, Elizabeth ... Read more

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