The Women of the Cousins' War: The Duchess, the Queen and the King's Mother
Paperback. Pub Date :2012-09-13 Pages: 352 Language: English Publisher: Simon Schuster Elizabeth Woodville. The White Queen (2009). Margaret Beaufort. The Red Queen (2010). and Jacquetta. Lady Rivers. The Lady of the Rivers (2011) are the subjects of the first three novels in Philippa Gregorys...
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Paperback. Pub Date :2012-09-13 Pages: 352 Language: English Publisher: Simon Schuster Elizabeth Woodville. The White Queen (2009). Margaret Beaufort. The Red Queen (2010). and Jacquetta. Lady Rivers. The Lady of the Rivers (2011) are the subjects of the first three novels in Philippa Gregorys Cousins ??War series. and of the three biographical essays in this book. Philippa Gregory and two historians. leading experts in their field who helped Philippa to research the novels. tell the extraordinary true stories of the life of these women who until now have been largely forgotten by history. their background and times. highlighting questions which are raised in the fiction and illuminating the novels. With a foreword by Philippa Gregory - in which Philippa writes revealingly about the differences between history and fiction and examines the gaps in the historical record - and ...
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781849833349 (1849833346)
Publish date: September 1st 2012
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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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