The Women of the Cousins' War
Format: kindle
ASIN: B00BB9GWBU
Publish date: September 13th 2011
Publisher: Touchstone
Pages no: 368
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Biography,
Writing,
Essays,
History,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Historical Fiction,
Medieval,
Biography Memoir,
Womens,
European History,
15th Century
These three historians endeavour to sort myth from fact concerning these influential women.
Książka, o której chcę dzisiaj Wam napisać nie należy do beletrystyki, jak mogłoby sugerować umieszczone na okładce imię i nazwisko znanej dobrze w Polsce autorki powieści historycznych. Jest to zbiór trzech esejów biograficznych - inicjatorką powstania tej pozycji była właśnie Philippa Gregory, ona...
Two British historians team up with Philippa Gregory (queen of revisionist history, aka the lady that wrote The Other Boleyn Girl) to write the histories of three high-profile women of the Wars of the Roses: Jacquetta of Luxemburg, her daughter Elizabeth Woodville, and Elizabeth's mother-in-law, Mar...
Classification: History Lite.The worst thing about this book is Philippa Gregory's involvement, both the introduction and her essay on Jaquetta. The best thing is the final essay by Michael Jones on Margaret Beaufort. David Baldwin's section on Elizabeth Woodville falls somewhere between the tw...
The Women of the Cousins' War was written to bring to light the "truth" behind the women featured in Philippa Gregory's Cousins' War trilogy, The White Queen, The Red Queen, and The Lady of the Rivers. Jacquetta (The Lady of the Rivers), Elizabeth Woodville (The White Queen), and Margaret Beaufort ...
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