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Famous Women


New & Upcoming Releases


A Woman of Influence: The Spectacular Rise of Alice Spencer in Tudor England by Vanessa Wilkie
(2023)

Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke: An Elizabethan writer and her world by Allen and Bennett
(2022)

Ladies-in-Waiting: Women Who Served Anne Boleyn by Sylvia Barbara Soberton
(2022)

Devices and Desires: Bess of Hardwick and the Building of Elizabethan England by Kate Hubbard
(2019)

Queenship at the Renaissance Courts of Britain: Catherine of Aragon and Margaret Tudor by Michelle L. Beer
(2021)

Power, Treason and Plot in Tudor England: Margaret Clitherow, an Elizabethan Saint by Tony Morgan
(2022)



A Woman of Noble Wit (Novel: Life of Katherine Raleigh) by Rosemary Griggs
(2021)

The Pirate Queen: The Life of Grace O'Malley by Judith Cook
(2021)

Bright Shadow (Novel: Katherine Plantagenet) by Jan Middleton
(2022)



Bess of Hardwick


Bess of Hardwick: First Lady of Chatsworth by Mary S. Lovell by Mary S. Lovell
(2006)

Bess of Hardwick: Portrait of an Elizabethan Dynast by David Durrant
(2001)

Bess of Hardwick: New perspectives by Lisa Hopkins
(2019)

Bess of Hardwick's Letters by Alison Wiggins
(2019)

Bess of Hardwick and her circle by Maud Stepney Rawson
(2019 R)

Four Queens and a Countess: The Struggle for the Crown by Jill Armitage
(2018)


Arbella Stuart


Arbella Stuart: The Uncrowned by Jill Armitage
(2019)

Arbella: England's Lost Queen by Sarah Gristwood
(2005)

Arbella Stuart: A Biography by B C Hardy
(2021 R)

Life of the Lady Arabella Stuart by A Murray Smith
(2015)

In the Shadow of the Throne: Lady Arabella Stuart by Ruth Norrington
(2002)

The Life and Letters of Lady Arabella Stuart Hurst and Blackett
(2018 R)




General

Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury by Hazel Pierce
(2013)

Margaret Pole: The Countess in the Tower by Susan Higginbotham
(2018)

Bessie Blount: Mistress to Henry VIII by Elizabeth Norton
(2013)

The Mistresses of Henry VIII by Kelly Hart
(2011)

Mistress Blanche: Queen Elizabeth I's Confidante by Ruth Elizabeth Richardson
(2018)

The Lost Tudor Princess: A Life of Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox by Alison Weir
(2015)



Eleanor, Countess of Desmond: Forgotten Heroine of the Tudor Wars in Ireland by Anne Chambers
(2001)

Elizabeth's Rival: The Tumultuous Life of the Countess of Leicester by Nicola Tallis
(2019)

Lady Katherine Knollys: The Unacknowledged Daughter of King Henry VIII by Sarah-Beth Watkins
(2015)

Jane Boleyn: The True Story of the Infamous Lady Rochford by Julia Fox
(2009)

Mary Boleyn: The Mistress of Kings by Alison Weir
(2012)

Mary Boleyn: The True Story of Henry VIII's Favorite Mistress by Josephine Wilkinson
(2010)


The Boleyn Women: The Tudor Femmes Fatales Who Changed History by Elizabeth Norton
(2014)

Elizabeth's Women: The Hidden Story of the Virgin Queen by Tracy Borman
(2010)

The Other Tudors: Henry VIII's Mistresses and Illegitimate Children by Philippa Jones
(2016)

Ladies-in-Waiting: Women Who Served at the Tudor Court by Victoria Sylvia Evans
(2014)

Ladies-in-Waiting: From The Tudors to the Present by Anne Somerset
(2004)

Golden Age Ladies: Women Who Shaped the Courts of Henry VIII and Francis I by Sylvia Barbara Soberton
(2016)


Shakespeare's Wife by Germaine Greer
(2009)

Elizabeth Widville, Lady Grey: Edward IV's Chief Mistress and the 'Pink Queen' by John Ashdown-Hill
(2019)

So High a Blood: The Story of Margaret Douglas, the Tudor That Time Forgot by Morgan Ring
(2017)

The Sisters of Henry VIII: The Tumultuous Lives of Margaret of Scotland and Mary of France by Maria Perry
(1999)

The Painted Closet of Lady Anne Bacon Drury by H.L. Meakin
(2013)

La Reine Blanche: Mary Tudor (Brandon), A Life in Letters by Sarah Bryson
(2018)



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