| Margaret Pole: The Countess in the Tower Contributor(s): Higginbotham, Susan (Author) |
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ISBN: 1445677156 ISBN-13: 9781445677156 Publisher: Amberley Publishing OUR PRICE: $17.06 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Historical - Biography & Autobiography | Women - History | Europe - Renaissance |
| Dewey: 942.052 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (0.75 lbs) 224 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Chronological Period - 15th Century - Chronological Period - 16th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Of the many executions ordered by Henry VIII, surely the most horrifying was that of sixty-seven-year-old Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, hacked to pieces on the scaffold by a blundering headsman. From the start, Margaret's life had been marred by tragedy and violence: her father, George, Duke of Clarence, had been executed at the order of his own brother, Edward IV, and her naive young brother, Edward, Earl of Warwick, had spent most of his life in the Tower before being executed on the orders of Henry VII. Yet Margaret, friend to Katherine of Aragon and the beloved governess of her daughter Mary, had seemed destined for a happier fate until religious upheaval and rebellion caused Margaret and her family to fall from grace. From Margaret's birth as the daughter of a royal duke to her beatification centuries after her death, Margaret Pole: The Countess in the Tower tells the story of one of the fortress's most unlikely prisoners. |
Contributor Bio(s): Higginbotham, Susan: - Susan Higginbotham is a lawyer and lives in North Carolina, USA. She is the author of 'The Woodvilles: The Wars of the Roses and England's Most Infamous Family' and five historical novels set in Lanacastrian and Tudor England. |