The Resource The last Tudor, Philippa Gregory
The last Tudor, Philippa Gregory
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- Summary
- 'How long do I have?' I force a laugh.`Not long,' he says very quietly. `They have confirmed your sentence of death. You are to be beheaded tomorrow. We don't have long at all.' Jane Grey was Queen of England for nine days. Using her position as cousin to the deceased king, her father and his conspirators put her on the throne ahead of the king's half-sister Mary, who quickly mustered an army, claimed her crown and locked Jane in the Tower. When Jane refused to betray her Protestant faith, Mary sent her to the executioner's block. There Jane turned her father's greedy, failed grab for power into her own brave and tragic martyrdom. `Learn you to die' is the advice that Jane gives in a letter to her younger sister Katherine, who has no intention of dying. She intends to enjoy her beauty and her youth and find love. But her lineage makes her a threat to the insecure and infertile Queen Mary and, when Mary dies, to her sister Queen Elizabeth, who will never allow Katherine to marry and produce a potential royal heir before she does. So when Katherine's secret marriage is revealed by her pregnancy, she too must go to the Tower. `Farewell, my sister,' writes Katherine to the youngest Grey sister, Mary. A beautiful dwarf, disregarded by the court, Mary finds it easy to keep secrets, especially her own, while avoiding Elizabeth's suspicious glare. After watching her sisters defy the queen, Mary is aware of her own perilous position as a possible heir to the throne. But she is determined to command her own destiny and be the last Tudor to risk her life in matching wits with her ruthless and unforgiving cousin Elizabeth
- Language
- eng
- Label
- The last Tudor
- Title
- The last Tudor
- Statement of responsibility
- Philippa Gregory
- Subject
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- truePoliticians
- trueHistorical fiction
- trueBiographical fiction
- Grey, Jane, Lady, 1537-1554 -- Fiction
- truePower (Social sciences)
- trueNobility
- trueGreat Britain -- History -- Tudors, 1485-1603
- trueInheritance and succession
- trueEngland -- History -- 16th century
- trueReligious persecution
- trueCourts and courtiers
- Great Britain -- History -- 1485-1603, Tudors -- Fiction
- trueMary, Queen of England, I, 1516-1558
- Hertford, Katherine Seymour, Countess of, 1540-1568 -- Fiction
- Keys, Mary Grey, 1545?-1578 -- Fiction
- trueRoyal houses
- trueTudor period (1485-1603) -- 1485 -- 1603
- trueWomen rulers
- trueGreat Britain -- History -- Mary I, 1553-1558
- Tudor family -- Fiction
- truePolitical corruption
- trueGrey, Jane, Lady, 1537-1554
- trueExecutions and executioners
- Elizabeth, I, Queen of England, 1533-1603 -- Fiction
- trueHertford, Katherine Seymour, Countess of, 1540-1568
- true16th century -- 1501 -- 1600
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 'How long do I have?' I force a laugh.`Not long,' he says very quietly. `They have confirmed your sentence of death. You are to be beheaded tomorrow. We don't have long at all.' Jane Grey was Queen of England for nine days. Using her position as cousin to the deceased king, her father and his conspirators put her on the throne ahead of the king's half-sister Mary, who quickly mustered an army, claimed her crown and locked Jane in the Tower. When Jane refused to betray her Protestant faith, Mary sent her to the executioner's block. There Jane turned her father's greedy, failed grab for power into her own brave and tragic martyrdom. `Learn you to die' is the advice that Jane gives in a letter to her younger sister Katherine, who has no intention of dying. She intends to enjoy her beauty and her youth and find love. But her lineage makes her a threat to the insecure and infertile Queen Mary and, when Mary dies, to her sister Queen Elizabeth, who will never allow Katherine to marry and produce a potential royal heir before she does. So when Katherine's secret marriage is revealed by her pregnancy, she too must go to the Tower. `Farewell, my sister,' writes Katherine to the youngest Grey sister, Mary. A beautiful dwarf, disregarded by the court, Mary finds it easy to keep secrets, especially her own, while avoiding Elizabeth's suspicious glare. After watching her sisters defy the queen, Mary is aware of her own perilous position as a possible heir to the throne. But she is determined to command her own destiny and be the last Tudor to risk her life in matching wits with her ruthless and unforgiving cousin Elizabeth
- Summary
- Reimagines the lives of Lady Jane Grey and her two sisters, who respectively endure imprisonment, a secret marriage and marginalization under the suspicious eyes of Tudor queens Mary and Elizabeth
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10563856
- Cataloging source
- AZZPT
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Gregory, Philippa
- Dewey number
- 823.92
- Illustrations
- genealogical tables
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- Series statement
- Tudor novels
- Series volume
- 0007
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Elizabeth
- Grey, Jane
- Hertford, Katherine Seymour
- Keys, Mary Grey
- Tudor family
- Great Britain
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The last Tudor, Philippa Gregory
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
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- text
- still image
- Content type code
-
- txt
- sti
- Content type MARC source
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- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000060589639
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 519 pages
- Isbn
- 9781476758763
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Other physical details
- genealogical tables
- System control number
- (OCoLC)981671798
- Label
- The last Tudor, Philippa Gregory
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- Content type code
-
- txt
- sti
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000060589639
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 519 pages
- Isbn
- 9781476758763
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Other physical details
- genealogical tables
- System control number
- (OCoLC)981671798
Subject
- true16th century -- 1501 -- 1600
- trueBiographical fiction
- trueCourts and courtiers
- Elizabeth, I, Queen of England, 1533-1603 -- Fiction
- trueEngland -- History -- 16th century
- trueExecutions and executioners
- Great Britain -- History -- 1485-1603, Tudors -- Fiction
- trueGreat Britain -- History -- Mary I, 1553-1558
- trueGreat Britain -- History -- Tudors, 1485-1603
- trueGrey, Jane, Lady, 1537-1554
- Grey, Jane, Lady, 1537-1554 -- Fiction
- trueHertford, Katherine Seymour, Countess of, 1540-1568
- Hertford, Katherine Seymour, Countess of, 1540-1568 -- Fiction
- trueHistorical fiction
- trueInheritance and succession
- Keys, Mary Grey, 1545?-1578 -- Fiction
- trueMary, Queen of England, I, 1516-1558
- trueNobility
- truePolitical corruption
- truePoliticians
- truePower (Social sciences)
- trueReligious persecution
- trueRoyal houses
- Tudor family -- Fiction
- trueTudor period (1485-1603) -- 1485 -- 1603
- trueWomen rulers
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