She-Wolves

by Castor, Helen

• ISBN13: 9780061430770
• ISBN10: 0061430773
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-01-31
• Publisher: HarperCollins

Summary

With the death of Edward VI in 1553, England, for the first time, would have a reigning queen. The question was: Who?

Author Biography

Helen Castor is a historian, writer, and broadcaster. She is the author of Blood and Roses, winner of the English Association's Beatrice White Prize, and presents BBC Radio 4's Making History. She is a fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University, and lives in London.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
Beginnings
July 6, 1553: The King Is Dead	p. 5
Long Live the Queen?	p. 25
Matilda: Lady of England
This Land Grew Dark	p. 39
Mathilda Imperatrix	p. 51
Lady of England	p. 73
Greatest in Her Offspring	p. 100
Eleanor: an Incomparable Woman
An Incomparable Woman	p. 133
The War Without Love	p. 164
By the Wrath of God, Queen of England	p. 184
Surpassing Almost All the Queens of This World	p. 194
Isabella: Iron Lady
One Man So Loved Another	p. 231
Dearest and Most Powerful	p. 256
"Someone Has Come Between My Husband and Myself"	p. 283
Iron Lady	p. 303
Margaret: A Great and Strong Laboured Woman
Our Lady Sovereign	p. 329
A Great and Strong Laboured Woman	p. 347
Might and Power	p. 362
The Queen Sustains Us	p. 388
New Beginnings
July 6, 1553: Long Live the Queen	p. 415
Not of Ladies' Capacity	p. 430
A Queen and by the Same Title a King Also	p. 451
Note on Sources and Further Reading	p. 461
Index	p. 469
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