From English History, which women were interesting enough to desrve a book written about them?

Question

There are SEVERAL books written about Elizabeth I and Anne Boleyn. What other women from that time period would make excellent characters for a historical fiction novel?

Answer 1

Any of Henry the Eigth's wives (Catherine of Aragon, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard, Katherine Parr). Theres also Mary I (Henry VIII's eldest daughter). Lady Jane Grey is also quite interesting. Theres also Margaret Tudor and her sister Mary, or Mary Queen of Scotland.

Answer 2

I'll second Bella's choice of Lady Jane Grey. What she actually accomplished was negligible, as she was executed at the age of sixteen after being queen for nine days. But her story is fascinating because she was a focal point of the political and religious intrigues of the time.

Answer 3

I think there's not been much of anything that I know of written about Boudica. She's from Ancient Britain. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boudica

Eleanor of Aquitaine. Margaret of Anjou. Empress Matilda.

Answer 4

some websites with e book references under. Artemisia Gentileschi replace into an exceedingly gifted artist whose artwork towers over many of the male artists of her day, and ranks between the main suitable. I observed her "Judith with the top of Holofernes" in Naples and it replace right into a ask your self between lots pious Renaissance trash. Catherine di Medici might have spent lots of her life in France, yet she replace right into a significant impression on French coverage in the direction of Italy, she additionally helped to create French food with the help of bringing her Italian chefs together with her. Caterina Sforza took on the region of a Prince behaving merely like her ruthless male equivalents while her husband died. Biography with the help of Antonia Fraser in her "Warrior Queens" e book.

Answer 5

Um...Virginia Woolf?

Answer 6

Try this website:

http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/famous-elizabethan-women.htm