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I am in love with the books by Phillipa Gregory (The Other Boleyn Girl, The Queen's Fool, etc.) and have just purchased I, Elizabeth. Now I am looking for books focusing on Queen Mary, Anne Boleyn, Henry the VIII and his other wives. Can anyone suggest a few good ones? I prefer fiction, but nonfiction can work too.

2007-03-10 03:37:49 · 7 answers · asked by roxyblue5 2 in Arts & Humanities Books & Authors

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"The Thistle and the Rose: The Tudor Princesses" by Jean Plaidy

"A Lady Raised High: A Novel of Anne Boleyn" by Laurien Gardner

"The Spanish Bride: A Novel of Catherine of Aragon" by Laurien Gardner

"Innocent Traitor: A Novel of Lady Jane Grey" by Alison Weir

2007-03-10 03:59:34 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Carolyn Meyer has a great series for young adults: Mary, Blood Mary; Doomed Queen Anne; Patience, Princess Katherine; Beware, Princess Elizabeth.

"The Last Wife of Henry VIII" by Carolly Erickson.

2007-03-10 03:42:28 · answer #2 · answered by laney_po 6 · 0 0

The Queen of Subtleties by Suzannah Dunn is a great story about Anne Boleyn as told from the view of Anne and also the main pastry/subtleties cook. I highly recommend it.

2007-03-11 13:30:10 · answer #3 · answered by packingal 4 · 0 0

Margaret George - I think thats her name
Wrote nice long novels about Mary Queen of Scots and Henry VIII
(she also wrote about Mary Magdalene & Cleopatra)

Her website says her next book will be about Queen Elizabeth I

2007-03-10 11:15:41 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Jean Plaidy has excellent historical novels on English royalty. I believe "The Spanish Bridegroom" is on Phillip II of Spain who married Mary Tudor (Mary I) and courted Elizabeth.

She has other novels on Elizabeth and other Tudors. Easy to read books and they are historically accurate.

2007-03-10 04:57:03 · answer #5 · answered by loryntoo 7 · 0 0

have you ever study Umberto Eco? He has written some extremely good books approximately medieval and rennaissance Europe. attempt Baudolino, the Island of the Day earlier, or the call of the Rose. Eco extremely gets into the substance of the age; his writing isn't basically human beings doing issues in previous formed costumes. he extremely explores what it replaced into to stay in that age, how they theory, what they knew, how they concieved of the international. you may learn plenty with regard to the variations between now and then. additionally outstanding is a e book I study presently called Leo the African, or Leo Africanus, by using Amin Maalouf. Leo replaced right into a real person who replaced into born a moor in Granada, Spain, on the tip of the fifteenth century, purely earlier the Christians beat the moors back to Africa. Leo spent his existence vacationing Africa and Europe and the unconventional exhibits plenty approximately diverse places for the time of those situations. happy analyzing!

2016-10-18 01:00:12 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

Thanks, those books look really good. I read Josephine, a trilogy about Josephine Bonepart. Historical fiction is one of my favourite genres. I also liked The Red Tent and Sarah, both biblical times.

2007-03-17 19:00:42 · answer #7 · answered by Elun 3 · 0 0

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