England: The Tudors

edward vi, lady jane grey, mary i, and elizabeth i

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The Tudors

Edward VI - Lady Jane Grey - Mary I - Elizabeth I

1556525761 Edward VI     1547–1553

The Prince and the Pauper
Author: Mark Twain, Everett Emerson; Buy New: $3.95

Prince Edward and a peasant boy change places.

To Kiss a Spy
Author: Jane Feather; Buy New: $6.99

Romance and intrigue in the time of young King Edward VI.

Green Darkness
Author: Anya Seton; Buy New: $10.17

A young married couple's marital disharmony may be the result of their
previous incarnations in as a monk and the beautiful blonde who made him forget his vow of celibacy in Tudor England. Spans the reigns of Edward VI and Mary I. 

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0330451898 Lady Jane Grey     10 July–19 July 1553

Lady Jane Grey,
Author: Marguerite Vance

Young adult novel of Lady Jane Grey

Raven Queen
Author: Pauline Francis

A tale of love and tragedy based on the life of Lady Jane Grey.

There Is No Escape
Author: Philip Lindsay

A novel of Lady Jane Grey

Nine Days a Queen
Author: Ann Rinaldi; Buy New: $5.99

Lady Jane Grey.

In the Shadow of Lady Jane
Author: Edward Charles; Buy New: $13.95

A novel of Lady Jane Grey

Henry VIII's Secret Daughter
Author: Frank Wilson Kenyon;

Was there a baby switch in the palace? Was Lady Jane Grey really the
daughter of Henry VIII?

Innocent Traitor
Author: Alison Weir; Buy New: $10.17

A novel of Lady  Jane Grey.

Coronation of Glory
Author: Deborah Meroff

A novel of Lady  Jane Grey

Crown in Darkness
Author: Margaret Mullally

A novel of Lady  Jane Grey

Destiny's Lady
Author: Maureen Peters.;

Lady Jane Grey.

Flower of the Greys
Author: Maureen Peters;

Lady Jane Grey

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0152164561 Mary I     1553–1558

The Bloody Tower  
Author: Valerie Wilding; Buy New: $11.77

A young girl whose father works at the Tower of London witnesses the many prisoners who reside there during the reign of "Bloody Mary" including the Queen's half-sister, the Princess Elizabeth.

In the Time of the Poisoned Queen  
Author: Ann Dukthas;

This mystery novel considers whether Queen Mary was poisoned.

Kissed by Shadows  
Author: Jane Feather; Buy New: $7.99
Love's Fragile Flame  
Author: Phyllis Caggiano;

A novel about a courageous woman caught up in the fires of religious persecution under Queen Mary.

In the Shadow of the Crown  
Author: Jean Plaidy; Buy New: $10.17

A biographical novel of Queen Mary I, often remembered as "Bloody Mary" who made herself unpopular with the English people by burning Protestants and marrying the King of Spain, Philip II.

Mary, Bloody Mary  
Author: Carolyn Meyer; Buy New: $6.00

A historical novel for young adults about Queen Mary I, daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon. Part of the "Young Royals" series

The Queen's Sorrow  
Author: Suzannah Dunn;

Her failure to bear a child and win her husband's love was a great source of sorrow to Queen Mary.

The Queen's Fool  
Author: Philippa Gregory; Buy New: $15.61

Also available as trade paperback and audio CD.  A young Jewish woman with the gift of prophecy joins the court of Queen Mary in this novel of court intrigue in which Sir Robert Dudley and Princess, later Queen, Elizabeth, also play a part.

BKS

The Spanish Bridegroom  
Author: Jean Plaidy;

Mary's husband, Philip II of Spain.

Mary The Infamous Queen
Author: Maureen Peters;

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0312180942 Elizabeth I  1558–1603 

The Elizabeth I Omnibus: Young Bess, Elizabeth Captive Princess, and Elizabeth and the Prince of Spain
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0749079827?ie=UTF8&tag=medienovel-
20&link_code=as3&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=0749079827
Margaret Irwin

For $15 this three book volum is quite a deal. The Elizabeth I trilogy all together in one volume. These
beloved novels, popular since their original publication in the 1940s-50s, tell the story of Elizabeth Tudor
from her perilous girlhood to her triumphant reign as Queen of England.
The Virgin's Lover
Author:  ~ Philippa Gregory 

In the autumn of 1558, church bells across England ring out the joyous news that Elizabeth I is the new queen. One woman hears the tidings with utter dread. She is Amy Dudley, wife of Sir Robert, and she knows that Elizabeth's ambitious leap to : the throne will draw her husband back to the center of the glamorous Tudor court, where he was born to be. :. Elizabeth's excited triumph is short-lived. She has inherited a bankrupt country where treason is rampant and foreign war a certainty. Her faithful advisor William Cecil warns her that she will survive only if she marries a strong prince to govern the rebellious country, but the one man Elizabeth desires is her childhood friend, the ambitious Robert Dudley. As the young couple falls in love, a question hangs in the air: can he really set aside his wife and marry the queen? When Amy is found dead, Elizabeth and Dudley are suddenly plunged into a struggle for survival.

BKS

The Robsart Affair
Author: Jennette Dowling Letton

Amy Robsert was the wife of Robert Dudley, with  whom Elizabeth I was in love.  Was she murdered or was it suicide?

The Young Elizabeth
Author: Francis Letton Jennette Letton

A novel about the stormy young womanhood of Queen
Elizabeth I

The Virgin Queen's Daughter
Author: Ella March Chase; Buy New: $16.47

To be released in December - order yours now!  What if the "Virgin Queen" had a daughter?

The Lady Elizabeth
Author: Alison Weir; Buy New: $16.50

Also available as audio CD.  The treacherous teenage years of Queen Elizabeth I, when she feared she would end on the scaffold like her mother, Anne Boleyn.

To Love a Queen
Author: Lawrence Schoonover;

The love of Sir Walter Raleigh for his queen.

Elizabeth Tudor, Sovereign Lady
Author: Marguerite Vance, Nedda Walker

Young adult novel about Ellizabeth I.

The Redheaded Princess
Author: Ann Rinaldi; Buy New: $10.87

Young adult novel about Elizabeth's girlhood.

The Secret Lion
Author: C. W. Gortner; Buy New: $10.20

As Edward VI is dying, Princess Elizabeth becomes the focus of plots to secure her future.

0312200390 Trilogy by Patricia Finney
Unicorn's Blood
Author: Patricia Finney; Buy New: $15.00

The story of a private diary, kept by Queen Elizabeth I as a young princess, which, in the wrong hands, could signal the end of the Tudor government.

Firedrake's Eye
Author: Patricia Finney

Tom O'Bedlam, the mad son of prominent Catholic family, stumbles upon evidence that his hated brother has returned to England to spearhead a scheme to assassinate the Queen.

Gloriana's Torch
Author: Patricia Finney; Buy New: $14.95

The Spanish are preparing to launch the Armada. Ex-soldier David Becket discovers that large quantities of gunpowder are going astray. Can someone in the heart of the English government be selling it to the Spanish? He is plagued by vivid dreams of England invaded, an alternative story where the Armada is victorious.

A Woman of Passion
Author: Virginia Henley; Buy New: $7.50

A lusty romance about Bess of Hardwick.

Tread Softly
Author: Kate Pennington; Buy New: $9.99

A seamstress at Elizabeth I's court witnesses a murder.

Moll Cutpurse, Her True History
Author: Ellen Galford; Buy New: $7.95

A novel of the famous female pickpocket.

Mistress Moderately Fair
Author: Katherine Sturtevant

A novel of lesbian relationships amongst actresses in Elizabethann England.

Elizabeth I
Author: Kathryn Lasky; Buy New: $8.58

Young adult novel from the "Royal Diaries" series.

As High as the Heavens
Author: Kathleen Morgan; Buy New: $11.19

A romance about a plot to rescue Mary Queen of Scots.

Elizabeth
Author: Tasha Alexander Buy New: $11.86

Movie tie-in 

Elizabeth
Author: Tom McGregor

Movie tie-in

Virgin: Prelude to the Throne
Author: Robin Maxwell; Buy New: $11.05

While living with her stepmother, Catherine Parr, Princess Elizabeth
falls under the spell of the dashing Tom Seymour. 

The Queen's Bastard
Author: Robin Maxwell; Buy New: $12.44

Arthur Dudley, the love-child of Elizabeth and Leicester. This novel
also follows the life of Elizabeth up to the death of her beloved,
Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. 

The Wild Irish
Author: Robin Maxwell; Buy New: $11.86

The Pirate Queen Grace O'Malley  journeys to London to meet Queen Elizabeth, who has her
hands full with the naughty and erratic Earl of Essex.

The Bisley Boy
Author: Chris Hunt; Buy New: $14.95

This novel, inspired by an old legend, presents Elizabeth as really
a man.  

I, Elizabeth
Author: Rosalind Miles; Buy New: $10.17
Queen of This Realm
Author: Jean Plaidy; Buy New: $10.17
Legacy
Author: Susan Kay;

A wonderful novel about the life of Elizabeth. BP

Queen and the Gypsy
Author: Constance Heaven;

The love triangle between Queen Elizabeth, Robert Dudley, and his
neglected wife Amy is broken when Amy is found lying dead at the foot of a staircase with her neck broken. Was it murder, an accident, or
suicide? 

Young Bess
Author: Margaret Irwin; Buy New: $9.95

New edition of the beloved novel of the girlhood of Elizabeth. This novel was made into a movie starring Jean Simmons, Stewart Granger, and Deborah Kerr.  

Elizabeth, Captive Princess
Author: Margaret Irwin; Buy New: $9.75

New edition of the beloved novel of of how Elizabeth was imprisoned in the Tower of London upon the order of  her
sister Queen Mary.

Elizabeth and the Prince of Spain
Author: Margaret Irwin; Buy New: $14.95

New edition of novel where Elizabeth matches wits against King Philip

Beware, Princess Elizabeth
Author: Carolyn Meyer; Buy New: $5.95

A historical novel for young adults about the girlhood of Elizabeth I.
From the "Young Royals" series

All the Queen's Men
Author: Evelyn Anthony

The men who played important roles in 
Queen Elizabeth's life.

Much Suspected of Me
Author: Maureen Peters;

Elizabeth during her sister Mary's reign.

The Virgin Queen
Author: Maureen Peters;

A novel of Elizabeth I.

England's Mistress
Author: Maureen Peters; Buy New: $20.99

Elizabeth proves her worth during Philip of Spain's launching of the Spanish Armada.

Elizabeth
Author: Evelyn Anthony

A novel of Elizabeth I.

The Heart of a Queen
Author: Josephine Delves-Broughton;

A novel of Elizabeth I.

Dear Lover England
Author: Pamela Bennetts;

A romance at the court of the Virgin Queen

Envoy from Elizabeth
Author: Pamela Bennetts;

A romance set during the Elizabethan era.

The Elizabeth I Mystery Series
Author: Karen Harper

A series of historical mystery novels in which Queen Elizabeth I, aided
by a small band of trusty friends, servants, and advisors, including Sir
William Cecil and Robert Dudley, investigates a series of baffling
murders that punctuate her reign. Most of these are available as hardbacks and mass market paperbacks..

The Elizabethan Theater Mystery Series
Author: Edward Marston
Tansy Taniard
Author: M. B. S. Strode Jackson; Buy New: $33.40

Story of the woman who sacrificed her red hair to make Elizabeth's famous wigs.h

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Elizabeth I Trilogy

The Virgin Queen's life from cradle to grave.

The Red-Haired Brat
Author: Joanna Dessau; Buy New: $32.50
Absolute Elizabeth
Author: Joanna Dessau; Buy New: $32.50
Gloriana
Author: Joanna Dessau; Buy New: $30.88
Ursula Blackhand Mystery Series
Author: Fiona Buckley

Blanchard, who acts as a spy and secret agent for Queen Elizabeth I and Sir William Cecil.

The Queen's Handmaiden
Author: Jennifer Ashley; Buy New: $10.36

Elizabeth I through the eyes of her handmaiden.

The Little Wigmaker Of Bread Street
Author: Lozania Prole

A novel of Queen Elizabeth's wigmaker.

Rosefire
Author: Sandra Davidson

Romance novel about the illegitimate daughter of Mary, Queen of Scots

Thorn of the Rose
Author: Sandra Davidson

Sequel to Roseffire (above.)

(Mary Queen of Scots can be found under Scotland.)

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