The Lives of Tudor Women
Elizabeth Norton
The turbulent Tudor age never fails to capture the imagination. But what was it actually like to be a woman during this period? This was a time when death in infancy or during childbirth was rife;when marriage was usually a legal contract, not a matter for love, and the education of women was minimal at best. Yet the Tudor century was also dominated by powerful and characterful women in a way that no era had been before.
Elizabeth Norton explores the seven ages of the Tudor woman, from childhood to old age, through the diverging examples of women such as Elizabeth Tudor, Henry VIII’s sister who died in infancy;Cecily Burbage, Elizabeth’s wet nurse;Mary Howard, widowed but influential at court;Elizabeth Boleyn, mother of a controversial queen;and Elizabeth Barton, a peasant girl who would be lauded as a prophetess. Their stories are interwoven with studies of topics ranging from Tudor toys to contraception to witchcraft, painting a portrait of the lives of queens and serving maids, nuns and harlots, widows and chaperones.
Other books by Elizabeth Norton
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The Temptation of Elizabeth Tudor
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The Illustrated Six Wives of Henry VIII
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Elfrida: The First Crowned Queen of England
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The Boleyn Women: The Tudor Femmes Fatales Who Changed English History
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Bessie Blount: Mistress to Henry VIII
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England’s Queens: The Biography
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Anne Boleyn: In Her Own Words & the Words of Those Who Knew Her
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Margaret Beaufort: Mother of the Tudor Dynasty
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Anne of Cleeve’s: Henry VIII’s Discarded Bride
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Catherine Parr: Wife, widow, mother, survivor, the story of the last queen of Henry VIII
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She Wolves: Notorious Queens of England
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Anne Boleyn: Henry VIII’s Obsession
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Jane Seymour: Henry VIII’s True Love
