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Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Formats
Description
After her husband leaves her, Jane Lindsay finds an old ring in a box of relics from a British jumble sale and discovers a Latin inscription in the band along with just one other word: "Jane." Feeling instant connection to the mysterious ring bearing her namesake, Jane begins a journey to learn more about the ring--and perhaps about herself and the lives of a sixteenth century dressmaker, Lucy Day, and the innocent young woman known in history as...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Elizabeth Tilney volunteers to escort and remain with Lady Jane Grey, who was Queen of England for nine days, to the Tower of London, through the increasingly unstable end of 1553, and has her loyalties severely tested.
Author
Series
A Tudor novel volume 1
Language
English
Description
A fictional portrait of Lady Jane Grey, the great-niece of Henry VIII, follows her turbulent life against the backdrop of Tudor power politics and religious upheaval, from her youth, to her nine-day reign as Queen of England, to its tragic aftermath.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The final book of the Tudor series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory features one of the most famous women in history, Lady Jane Grey, and her two sisters, each of whom dared to defy her queen.
Jane Grey was queen of England for nine days. Her father and his allies crowned her instead of the dead king's half-sister Mary Tudor, who quickly mustered an army, claimed her throne, and locked Jane in the Tower of...
Jane Grey was queen of England for nine days. Her father and his allies crowned her instead of the dead king's half-sister Mary Tudor, who quickly mustered an army, claimed her throne, and locked Jane in the Tower of...
Author
Publisher
Broadway Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
419 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Sixteen-year-old Jane Grey is a quiet and obedient young lady destined to become the shortest reigning English monarch. Her beautiful middle sister Katherine Grey charms all the right people--until loyalties shift. And finally Lady Mary Grey, a dwarf with a twisted spine whose goal is simply to protect people she loves--but at a terrible cost. In an age in which begetting sons was all that mattered and queens rose and fell on the sex of their child,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
“Fascinating . . . Alison Weir does full justice to the subject.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer
At his death in 1547, King Henry VIII left four heirs to the English throne: his only son, the nine-year-old Prince Edward; the Lady Mary, the adult daughter of his first wife Katherine of Aragon; the Lady Elizabeth, the teenage daughter of his second wife Anne Boleyn; and his young great-niece, the Lady Jane Grey. In this...
At his death in 1547, King Henry VIII left four heirs to the English throne: his only son, the nine-year-old Prince Edward; the Lady Mary, the adult daughter of his first wife Katherine of Aragon; the Lady Elizabeth, the teenage daughter of his second wife Anne Boleyn; and his young great-niece, the Lady Jane Grey. In this...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books Ltd
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xxiv, 376 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, portraits, facsimiles, genealogical tables ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"'Good people, I am come hither to die, and by a law I am condemned to the same.' These were the heartbreaking words of a seventeen-year-old girl, Lady Jane Grey, as she stood on the scaffold on a cold February morning in 1554. Her death for high treason sent shockwaves through the Tudor world and served as a gruesome reminder to all who aspired to the Crown that the axe could fall at any time. Jane is known to history as 'the Nine-Day Queen, ' but...
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
14) Lady Jane
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (141 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Traces the fortunes of Lady Jane Grey, who reluctantly occupied the throne of England for nine days in the year 1553, and who was executed in 1554 at the behest of Mary Tudor.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (185 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Hosted and based on the book by Dr. Helen Castor, and filmed on location in England and France, this BBC series explores the lives of seven English queens who challenged male power, the fierce and fiery reactions they provoked, and whether, in fact, much has changed.
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