Lady Jane Grey Reference Guide

LADY CROOKBACK – on disability and invisibility in historical fiction. By Elizabeth Fremantle

Posted on 14th May 2014 by Tamise

Author Elizabeth Fremantle has written an article for the History Girls blog about Mary Grey. Elizabeth’s new book, ‘Sisters of Treason’ will be published on 22nd May.

LADY CROOKBACK – on disability and invisibility in historical fiction

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Elizabeth’s Bedfellows Paperback by Anna Whitelock

Posted on 11th May 2014 by Tamise

An excellent review for the paperback of Anna Whitelock’s ‘Elizabeth’s Bedfellows’ in the Sunday Times Culture.

‘Nobody knew Elizabeth I better than the women who form the subject of Whitelock’s engrossing and admirably researched study: the women who slept in the queen’s bed, ministered to her needs and experienced her fits of rage. Whitelock’s book brings out the loyalty that Elizabeth inspired and the unpredictable ways in which she chose to reward it. Taking us behind the closed doors of Elizabeth’s bedchamber, she builds up a remarkably intimate portrait. With his dazzling portrait, Whitelock takes her place among the foremost, and most enthrallingly readable, historians of the Tudors.’

Miranda Seymour
p.40, The Culture, Sunday Times (11 May 2014)

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My Lady Jane Grey Birthday Cards

Posted on 20th April 2014 by Tamise

For my birthday last week, I received these two wonderful Lady Jane Grey cards.

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Books that feature Lady Jane in 2014

Posted on 15th March 2014 by Tamise

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?

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Books 2014 – On sale now – Queen’s Gambit (paperback) by Elizabeth Fremantle

Posted on 15th March 2014 by Tamise

13 March – Queen’s Gambit (Paperback) by Elizabeth Fremantle

‘The court of henry VIII is rife with intrigue, rivalries and romance – and none are better placed to understand this than the women at its heart.

Katherine Parr, Widowed for the second time aged thirty-one, is obliged to return to court, but, suspicious of the aging king and those who surround him, she does so with reluctance. Nevertheless, when she finds herself caught up in a passionate affair with the dashing and seductive Thomas Seymour, she believes she might finally be able to marry for love. But her presence at court has attracted the attentions of another.

Captivated by her honesty and intelligence, Henry Tudor has his own plans for Katherine and no one is in the position to refuse a proposal from the king. So with her charismatic lover dispatched to the continent, Katherine must accept the hand of the ailing egotistical monarch and become Henry’s sixth wife – and yet she has still not quite given up on love.’

From Elizabeth Fremantle

Further details – Amazon.co.uk

Elizabeth Fremantle