Farewell Letter to Katherine Grey


Lady Jane wrote a farewell letter to her sister, Katherine. The letter was written in her Greek Testament, which she bequeathed to her sister.

A full copy of this letter can be found in the following:

Child-Life and Girlhood of Remarkable Women by W H D Adams

Notices of the Historic Persons Buried in the Chapel of St Peter ad Vincula in the Tower of London: with an account of the discovery of the supposed remains of Queen Anne Boleyn by Doyne C Bell

The Nine Days' Queen: Lady Jane Grey and Her Times by Richard Davey

Acts and Monuments VI by J Fox

Silent But For The Word: Tudor Women as Patrons, Translators, and Writers of Religious Works edited by Margaret Patterson Hannay

The Nine Days Queen: A Portrait of Lady Jane Grey by Mary Luke

Literary Remains of Lady Jane Grey: With A Memoir of Her Life by Nicholas H Nicolas

(This book contains 2 slightly different versions of Jane's letter to Katherine.)

Lives of the Tudor Princesses by Agnes Strickland

Documents of Lady Jane Grey: Nine Days Queen of England 1553 by James D Taylor Jr

State Trials, 1 Mary, 1553 and others for High Treason

Extracts can be found in the following:

Lady Jane Grey by Hester W Chapman

Two Tudor Portraits: Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey and Lady Katherine Grey by Hester W Chapman

Raven Queen by Pauline Francis

Jane Grey Reine De 9 Jours (1537-1554) by Marguerite Fronville

Arbella: England's Lost Queen by Sarah Gristwood

Lady Jane Grey and Her Times by George Howard

Bess of Hardwick: First Lady of Chatsworth by Mary S Lovell. (1 line only).

Lady Jane Grey: Nine Days Queen by Alison Plowden

Lady Jane Grey and the House of Suffolk by Alison Plowden

The House of Tudor by Alison Plowden

Bradgate Park: Childhood Home of Lady Jane Grey by Joan Stevenson and Anthony Squires (1 line only).

Children of England: The Heirs of King Henry VIII by Alison Weir

Innocent Traitor by Alison Weir

Teen Queen: Looking for Lady Jane by Cynthia Zarin (The New Yorker) (1 line only).






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