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The last Tudor
- Title
- The last Tudor / Philippa Gregory.
- Author
- Gregory, Philippa
- Publication
- New York : Touchstone, 2017.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 17-9312 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 518 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- "The latest novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory features one of the most famous girls in history, Lady Jane Grey, and her two sisters, each of whom dared to defy her queen. Seventeen-year-old 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 London. When Jane refused to betray her Protestant faith, Mary sent her to the executioner's block, where Jane transformed her father's greedy power-grab into tragic martyrdom. "Learn you to die," was the advice Jane wrote to her younger sister Katherine, who has no intention of dying. She intends to enjoy her beauty and her youth and fall in love. But she is heir to the insecure and infertile Queen Mary and then to her sister Queen Elizabeth, who will never allow Katherine to marry and produce a Tudor son. When Katherine's pregnancy betrays her secret marriage she faces imprisonment in the Tower, only yards from her sister's scaffold. "Farewell, my sister," writes Katherine to the youngest Grey sister, Mary. A beautiful dwarf, disregarded by the court, Mary keeps family secrets, especially her own, while avoiding Elizabeth's suspicious glare. After seeing her sisters defy the queen, Mary is acutely aware of her own danger, but determined to command her own life. What will happen when the last Tudor defies her ruthless and unforgiving cousin Queen Elizabeth?"--
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Biographical fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 517-518).
- Call Number
- JFE 17-9312
- ISBN
- 9781476758763
- 147675876X
- LCCN
- 2017017009
- OCLC
- 2017017009
- Author
- Gregory, Philippa, author.
- Title
- The last Tudor / Philippa Gregory.
- Publisher
- New York : Touchstone, 2017.
- Edition
- First Touchstone hardcover edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 517-518).
- Research Call Number
- JFE 17-9312