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Paperback. Pub Date :2011-07-01 Pages: 496 Language: English Publisher: Faber & Faber Now a BBC4 series showing in March 2012.When Edward VI - Henry VIIIs longed-for son - died in 1553. extraordinarily. there was no one left to claim the title King of England For the first time. all the contenders for the crown were female.In 1553. England was about to experience the monstrous regiment -. the unnatural rule -. of a woman But female rule in England also had a past. Four hundred years before Edwards death. Matilda. daughter of Henry I and granddaughter of William the Conquerer. came tantalisingly close to securing her hold on the power of the crown. And between the 12th and the 15th centuries three more exceptional women - Eleanor of Aquitaine. Isabella of France. and Margaret of Anjou - discovered. as queens consort and dowager. how much was possible if the presumptions of ma...
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With the death of Edward VI in 1553, England, for the first time, would have a reigning queen. The question was: Who?
Four women stood upon the crest of history: Katherine of Aragon’s daughter, Mary; Anne Boleyn’s daughter, Elizabeth; Mary, Queen of Scots; and Lady Jane Grey. But over the centuries, other exceptional women had struggled to push the boundaries of their authority and influence—and been vilified as “she-wolves” for their ambitions. Revealed in vivid detail, the stories of Eleanor of Aquitaine, Isabella of France, Margaret of Anjou, and the Empress Matilda expose the paradox that England’s next female leaders would confront as the Tudor throne lay before them—man ruled woman, but these women sought to rule a nation.
Helen Castor is a historian of medieval England, and a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. Her first book, Blood & Roses, a biography of the fifteenth-century Paston family, was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize in 2005 and won the English Association's Beatrice White Prize in 2006. Her second book, She-Wolves, was made into a BBC2 tv series.
She lives in London with her husband and son.
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