Sarah Gristwood. Basic, $28.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-46501-831-4
Gristwood, a British journalist and biographer, provides a fresh take on the Wars of the Roses, a 30-year tug-of-war between two feuding dynasties, the houses of Lancaster and York, over the crown of England. The conflict officially ended with the...
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Sarah Gristwood, Author . Houghton Mifflin $30 (450p) ISBN 978-0-618-34133-7
The history of Tudor England is rife with claimants to the throne. Gristwood tells one of the more heartrending of these stories: that of Arbella Stuart, the young cousin of the future James I, who appears at times to have been bred by her...
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Sarah Gristwood, Author . Viking $27.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-670-01828-4
What was the exact nature of the relationship between Elizabeth Tudor and her favorite, Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester? And how did this relationship affect Elizabeth's actions as monarch? Gristwood (Arbella: England's Lost Queen
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Sarah Gristwood. Basic, $28.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-465-09678-7
Gristwood (Blood Sisters), a commentator on British royal affairs, reframes the Renaissance as an “Age of Queens” in a fast-paced chronological narrative bursting with intrigue. Opening with Spain’s Isabella of Castile (1451–1504) and concluding...
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Sarah Gristwood. St. Martin’s, $29.99 (400p) ISBN 978-1-250-27142-6
Historian Gristwood (The Queen’s Mary) offers an engrossing look at how the Tudor dynasty employed the “stylish and stylised game” of courtly love. Popularized by medieval Arthurian legends depicting star-crossed lovers Guinevere and Lancelot,...
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