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The sisters who would be queen : Mary, Katherine, and Lady Jane Grey : a Tudor tragedy Cover Image Book

The sisters who would be queen : Mary, Katherine, and Lady Jane Grey : a Tudor tragedy / Leanda de Lisle.

De Lisle, Leanda. (Author).

Summary:

Evaluates the tragic story of Lady Jane Grey while offering insight into the parallel experiences of her sisters and the broader Grey family, detailing Jane's short reign and the royal bloodline that exposed all three to the enmity of Elizabeth I.

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  • ISBN: 0345491351
  • ISBN: 9780345491350
  • Physical Description: xxx, 350 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 25 cm
  • Edition: 1st U.S. edition
  • Publisher: New York : Ballantine Books, [2009]

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General Note:
"Originally published in Great Britain by HarperPress, in 2008"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Part 1 Educating Jane -- I Beginning 3 -- II First Lessons 12 -- III Jane's Wardship 21 -- IV Example of Catherine Parr 30 -- V Guardian's Fate 41 -- VI Northumberland's "Crew" 51 -- VII Bridling Jane 61 -- VIII Jane and Mary 69 -- Part 2 Queen and Martyr -- IX "No Poor Child"? 81 -- X A Married Woman 93 -- XI Jane the Queen 102 -- XII A Prisoner in the Tower 114 -- XIII A Fatal Revolt 126 -- Part 3 Heirs to Elizabeth -- XIV Aftermath 143 -- XV Growing Up 156 -- XVI Spanish Plot 166 -- XVII Betrothal 178 -- XVIII A Knot of Secret Might 189 -- XIX First Son 200 -- XX Parliament and Catherine's Claim 211 -- XXI Hales's Tempest 219 -- Part 4 Lost Love -- XXII Lady Mary and Mr. Keyes 229 -- XXIII Clear Choice 236 -- XXIV While I Lived, Yours 246 -- XXV Last Sister 251 -- XXVI A Return to Elizabeth's Court 260 -- XXVII Katherine's Sons and the Death of Elizabeth 268 -- XXVIII Standing at King Henry's Opened Tomb 276.

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Grey, Jane, Lady, 1537-1554.
Hertford, Katherine Seymour, Countess of, 1540-1568.
Keys, Mary Grey, 1545?-1578.
Gray family.
Nobility > Great Britain > Biography.
Queens > Great Britain > Biography.
Sisters > Great Britain > Biography.
Great Britain > History > Tudors, 1485-1603.
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Biographies.

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