Description
"Helen Castor has an exhilarating narrative gift. . . . Readers will love this book, finding it wholly absorbing and rewarding." --Hilary Mantel, Booker Prize-winning author of Wolf Hall
In the tradition of Antonia Fraser, David Starkey, and Alison Weir, prize-winning historian Helen Castor delivers a compelling, eye-opening examination of women and power in England, witnessed through the lives of six women who exercised power against all odds--and one who never got the chance. Exploring the narratives of the Empress Matilda, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Isabella of France, Margaret of Anjou, and other "she-wolves," as well as that of the Nine Days' Queen, Lady Jane Grey, Castor invokes a magisterial discussion of how much--and how little--has changed through the centuries.
Author: Helen Castor
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 01/31/2012
Pages: 496
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.17lbs
Size: 8.92h x 6.06w x 1.03d
ISBN13: 9780061430770
ISBN10: 0061430773
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Royalty
- History | Europe | Great Britain | General
- Biography & Autobiography | Historical