Lady Jane Grey Reference Guide

2013 was a bumper year for books that featured Lady Jane Grey. There was ‘Tudor: The Family Story’ by Leanda de Lisle, ‘Queen’s Gambit’ by Elizabeth Fremantle, ‘The Children of Henry VIII’ by John Guy and ‘Venus in Winter’ by Gillian Bagwell.

For 2014, I have only come across one new book that will feature Jane. ‘Sisters of Treason’ by Elizabeth Fremantle (the second in her Tudor trilogy) will be published in May.

The paperback version of Elizabeth’s ‘Queen’s Gambit’ has just been published and we also have the paperbacks of De Lisle’s ‘Tudor: The Family Story’ and Guy’s ‘The Children of Henry VIII’ to look forward to.

Have I missed any new books due in 2014 that will feature Jane?

(c) Penguin

6 March – God’s Traitors: Terror and Faith in Elizabethan England by Jessie Childs

(c) Bodley Head

‘The Catholics of Elizabethan England did not witness a golden age. Their Mass was banned, their priests were outlawed, their faith was criminalised. In an age of assassination and Armada, those Catholics who clung to their faith were increasingly seen as the enemy within. In this superb history, award-winning author Jessie Childs explores the Catholic predicament in Elizabethan England through the eyes of one remarkable family: the Vauxes of Harrowden Hall.

From Random House.co.uk

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Jessie Childs

3 March – The Third Plantagenet: George, Duke of Clarence, Richard III’s Brother by John Ashdown-Hill

‘Less well-known than his brothers, Edward IV and Richard III, little has been written about George, Duke of Clarence and we are faced with a series of questions. Where was he born? What was he really like? Was it his unpredictable behavior that set him against his brother Edward IV? George played a central role in the Wars of the Roses played out by his brothers. But was he for York or Lancaster? Who was really responsible for his execution? Is the story of his drowning in a barrel of wine really true? And was ‘false, fleeting, perjur’d Clarence’ in some ways the role model behind the sixteenth-century defamation of Richard III? Finally, where was he buried and what became of his body? Can the DNA used recently to test the remains of his younger brother, Richard III, also reveal the truth about the supposed ‘Clarence bones’ in Tewkesbury? John Ashdown Hill exposes the myths surrounding this pivotal and central Plantagenet, with remarkable results.’

From Amazon.co.uk

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