Tudor Women: Queens & Commoners
This volume gives an account of the women both behind the scenes and at the forefront of 16th-century English history, including Mary Tudor, Elizabeth I, Mary Queen of Scots, and Henry VIII's six wives. The women of the royal family are the central characters; what they ate, how they dressed, the books they read, and the letters they wrote are all addressed. Yet even the greatest of these women suffered the universal legal and physiological disabilities of womanhood, and while some triumphed over them, others went under.

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Tudor Women: Queens & Commoners
This volume gives an account of the women both behind the scenes and at the forefront of 16th-century English history, including Mary Tudor, Elizabeth I, Mary Queen of Scots, and Henry VIII's six wives. The women of the royal family are the central characters; what they ate, how they dressed, the books they read, and the letters they wrote are all addressed. Yet even the greatest of these women suffered the universal legal and physiological disabilities of womanhood, and while some triumphed over them, others went under.

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Tudor Women: Queens & Commoners

Tudor Women: Queens & Commoners

by Alison Plowden
Tudor Women: Queens & Commoners

Tudor Women: Queens & Commoners

by Alison Plowden

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This volume gives an account of the women both behind the scenes and at the forefront of 16th-century English history, including Mary Tudor, Elizabeth I, Mary Queen of Scots, and Henry VIII's six wives. The women of the royal family are the central characters; what they ate, how they dressed, the books they read, and the letters they wrote are all addressed. Yet even the greatest of these women suffered the universal legal and physiological disabilities of womanhood, and while some triumphed over them, others went under.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780750928809
Publisher: The History Press
Publication date: 05/01/2002
Edition description: Third Edition, Third edition
Pages: 192
Product dimensions: 5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.60(d)

Table of Contents

Women in the World1
1My Lady the King's Mother7
2By God's Grace Boys Will Follow28
3The King's Lady49
4Bound to Obey and Serve69
5The Frailness of Young Women86
6When Women Become Such Clerks105
7Long Live Our Good Queen Mary125
8But One Mistress and No Master146
Elizabethan Women164
Genealogical Table of the Tudor Family170
A Note on Sources172
Index175
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