The Lives Of Tudor Women

Bringing to life the experience of being a 16th-century woman

by Elizabeth Norton

Publisher Head of Zeus Price £25 Release Out Now Books of this kind present the author with a challenge: with a potentially infinite brief, how does one decide where lines are drawn and topics either included or set aside? Tudor expert Elizabeth Norton has a canny solution. As she emphatically states in the opening words of her preface to The Lives Of Tudor Women: “This is a biography.” In effect, her approach is to treat this as a study of the life of a Tudor everywoman, “…who was born in 1485 and died in 1603.” Furthermore, she uses the device of Shakespeare’s concept of the seven ages of man to provide structure. Although clichéd on paper, it works very well in practice. Henry VII and Elizabeth of York’s second daughter,…

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