Title:
Blood sisters : the women behind the Wars of the Roses / Sarah Gristwood.
Author:
Gristwood, Sarah.
Publication Information:
New York : Basic Books, A Member of the Perseus Books Group, [2013]
Call Number:
DA250 .G75 2013
Abstract:
A historian describes the drama and family feuding within the Plantagenets, England's fifteenth-century ruling family, from the perspective of the mothers, wives and daughters who wove a web of loyalty and betrayal that ultimately gave way to the Tudors.
ISBN:
9780465018314
Physical Description:
xxv, 390 pages, 16 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents:
1445-1460, Lancaster. Fatal marriage ; "The red rose and the white" ; "A woman's fear" ; "No women's matters" ; "Captain Margaret" ; "Mightiness meets misery" -- 1460-1471. "To love a king" ; "Fortune's pageant" ; "Domestic broils" ; "That was a queen" -- 1471-1483. "My lovely queen" ; "Fortune's womb" ; Mother of griefs ; "A golden sorrow" -- 1483-1485. "Weeping queens" ; "Innocent blood" ; "Look to your wife" ; "Anne my wife" ; "In Bosworth Field" -- 1485-1509. "True succeeders" ; "Golden sovereignty" ; "The edge of traitors" ; "Civil wounds" ; Like a queen inter me ; "Our noble mother."
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