Anne Neville

Author : Prof Michael Hicks
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752468877

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Anne Neville by Prof Michael Hicks Pdf

Anne Neville was queen to England's most notorious king, Richard III. She was immortalised by Shakespeare for the remarkable nature of her marriage, a union which brought together a sorrowing widow with her husband's murderer. Anne's misfortune did not end there. In addition to killing her first husband, Richard also helped kill her father, father-in-law and brother-in-law, imprisoned her mother, and was suspected of poisoning Anne herself. Dying before the age of thirty, Anne Neville packed into her short life incident enough for many adventurous careers, but was often, apparently, the passive instrument of others' evil intentions. This fascinating new biography seeks to tell the story of Anne's life in her own right, and uncovers the real wife of Richard III by charting the remarkable twists and turns of her fraught and ultimately tragic life.

Author : Amy Licence
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781445611778

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Anne Neville by Amy Licence Pdf

The real story of the 'Kingmaker's Daughter'. Published to coincide with the reburial of Richard III

Author : Philippa Gregory
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781451626148

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The Kingmaker's Daughter by Philippa Gregory Pdf

In this New York Times bestseller that inspired the critically acclaimed Starz miniseries The White Queen, Philippa Gregory tells the tale of Anne Neville, a beautiful young woman who must navigate the treachery of the English court as her father, known as the Kingmaker, uses her and her sister as pawns in his political game. The Kingmaker’s Daughter—Philippa Gregory’s first sister story since The Other Boleyn Girl—is the gripping tale of the daughters of the man known as the Kingmaker, Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick: the most powerful magnate in fifteenth-century England. Without a son and heir, he uses his daughters, Anne and Isabel, as pawns in his political games, and they grow up to be influential players in their own right. At the court of Edward IV and his beautiful queen, Elizabeth Woodville, Anne grows from a delightful child to become ever more fearful and desperate when her father makes war on his former friends. Married at age fourteen, she is soon left widowed and fatherless, her mother in sanctuary and her sister married to the enemy. Anne manages her own escape by marrying Richard, Duke of Gloucester, but her choice will set her on a collision course with the overwhelming power of the royal family.

Author : Michael Hicks
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780752468877

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Anne Neville by Michael Hicks Pdf

Anne Neville was queen to England's most notorious king, Richard III. She was immortalised by Shakespeare for the remarkable nature of her marriage, a union which brought together a sorrowing widow with her husband's murderer. Anne's misfortune did not end there. In addition to killing her first husband, Richard also helped kill her father, father-in-law and brother-in-law, imprisoned her mother, and was suspected of poisoning Anne herself. Dying before the age of thirty, Anne Neville packed into her short life incident enough for many adventurous careers, but was always, apparently, the passive instrument of others' evil intentions. This fascinating new biography seeks to tell the story of Anne's life in her own right, and uncovers the real wife of Richard III by charting the remarkable twists and turns of her fraught and ultimately tragic life.

Author : Lady Anne NEVILL
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1776
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0025220861

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The History of Lady Anne Neville, Sister to the Great Earl of Warwick: in which are Interspersed Memoirs of that Nobleman, and the Principal Characters of the Age in which She Lived. [By Alexander Bicknell.] by Lady Anne NEVILL Pdf

Author : Anne O'Brien
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 1304 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781408927953

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Virgin Widow by Anne O'Brien Pdf

A Sunday Times Bestseller England’s Forgotten Queens ‘O’Brien cleverly intertwines the personal and political in this enjoyable, gripping tale.’ -The Times 'I was a penniless, landless petitioner, my Neville blood a curse, my future dependent on the charity of those who despised me...’

Author : Jean Plaidy
Publisher : Crown
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2007-08-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307394323

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The Reluctant Queen by Jean Plaidy Pdf

In 1470, a reluctant Lady Anne Neville is betrothed by her father, the politically ambitious Earl of Warwick, to Edward, Prince of Wales. A gentle yet fiercely intelligent woman, Anne has already given her heart to the prince’s younger brother, Richard, Duke of Gloucester. Unable to oppose her father’s will, she finds herself in line for the throne of England—an obligation that she does not want. Yet fate intervenes when Edward is killed at the Battle of Tewkesbury. Anne suddenly finds herself free to marry the man she loves—and who loves her in return. The ceremony is held at Westminster Abbey, and the duke and duchess make a happy home at Middleham Castle, where both spent much of their childhood. Their life is idyllic, until the reigning king dies and a whirlwind of dynastic maneuvering leads to his children being declared illegitimate. Richard inherits the throne as King Richard III, and Anne is crowned queen consort, a destiny she thought she had successfully avoided. Her husband’s reign lasts two years, two months, and two days—and in that short time Anne witnesses the true toll that wearing the crown takes on Richard, the last king from the House of York.

Author : Saga Hillbom
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9151938324

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Princess of Thorns by Saga Hillbom Pdf

1483, Westminster. The bells toll for the dead King Edward IV, while his rivaling nobles grasp for power. His daughter Cecily can only watch as England is plunged into chaos, torn between her loyalties to her headstrong mother, Elizabeth Woodville, and her favourite uncle, Richard of Gloucester. When Elizabeth schemes to secure her own son on the throne that Richard lays claim to, Cecily and her siblings become pawns in a perilous game. The Yorkist dynasty that Cecily holds so dear soon faces another threat: the last Lancastrian claimant, Henry Tudor. Meanwhile, Cecily battles with envy towards her older sister, who is betrothed to Tudor. The White Rose of York has turned its thorns inwards, and royal blood proves fatal... Princess of Thorns is a sweeping tale of loyalty and treason, ambition and family bonds. Saga Hillbom is the author of four historical novels. Her other work include City of Bronze City of Silver, Today Dauphine Tomorrow Nothing, and A Generation of Poppies.

Author : Sharon Kay Penman
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 945 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2008-01-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429930093

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The Sunne In Splendour by Sharon Kay Penman Pdf

The classic, magnificent bestselling novel about Richard III, now in a special thirtieth anniversary edition with a new preface by the author In this triumphant combination of scholarship and storytelling, Sharon Kay Penman redeems Richard III—vilified as the bitter, twisted, scheming hunchback who murdered his nephews, the princes in the Tower—from his maligned place in history. Born into the treacherous courts of fifteenth-century England, in the midst of what history has called The War of the Roses, Richard was raised in the shadow of his charismatic brother, King Edward IV. Loyal to his friends and passionately in love with the one woman who was denied him, Richard emerges as a gifted man far more sinned against than sinning. With revisions throughout and a new author's preface discussing the astonishing discovery of Richard's remains five centuries after his death, Sharon Kay Penman's brilliant classic is more powerful and glorious than ever.

Author : Philippa Gregory
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781476735481

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The White Queen by Philippa Gregory Pdf

A tale of the Wars of the Roses follows Elizabeth Woodville, who ascends to royalty and fights for the well-being of her family, including two sons whose imprisonment in the Tower of London precedes a devastating unsolved mystery.

Author : Alison Weir
Publisher : Random House
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781446449196

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The Princes In The Tower by Alison Weir Pdf

The story of the death, in sinister circumstances, of the boy-king Edward V and his younger brother Richard, Duke of York, is one of the most fascinating murder mysteries in English history. It is a tale with profound moral and social consequences, rich in drama, intrigue, treason, scandal and violence. In this gripping book Alison Weir re-examines all the evidence - including that against the Princes' uncle, Richard III, whose body was recently discovered beneath a Leicester car park. She brilliantly reconstructs the whole chain of events leading to their murder and reveals how, why and by whose order they died.

Author : Mark Bradbeer,John Casson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781476618371

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Sir Henry Neville, Alias William Shakespeare by Mark Bradbeer,John Casson Pdf

Shakspere’s history plays are more than dramatized history lessons. They explore contemporary dangers inherent in royal succession at a time when Elizabeth I decreed that mere discussion of who would inherit the throne was treason. The plays were political and therefore dangerous. Yet William Shakspere from Stratford-upon-Avon was never arrested for his writing nor spent time in prison, unlike his fellow playwrights Marlowe, Kyd and Jonson. In 1601 Sir Henry Neville was imprisoned and “Shakespeare” stopped writing history plays. The identification of Neville as an authorship candidate, put forward by James and Rubinstein (2005), urges reinterpretation of the plays. Neville enjoyed privileged access to the Holinshed Chronicles (1587), a primary source for the plays. He was ambassador to France and spoke French (see Henry V), knew the descendants of Jack Cade (Henry VI Part 2), was familiar with Crosby Place (Richard III) and lived in Blackfriars (Henry VIII). This book reveals new evidence of Neville’s authorship, with examples of annotation found in books from Neville’s library suggesting they were source material for the plays. Numerous anomalies in the plays indicate Shakespeare’s consistent bias in portraying the Nevilles in a positive light, revealing the hidden author’s political viewpoint and true identity.

Author : Tracey Thorn
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781786892577

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Another Planet by Tracey Thorn Pdf

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZE 'Tender, wise and funny' Sunday Express 'Beautifully observed, deadly funny' Max Porter Before becoming an acclaimed musician and writer, Tracey Thorn was a typical teenager: bored and cynical, despairing of her aspirational parents. Her only comfort came from house parties and the female pop icons who hinted at a new kind of living. Returning to the scene of her childhood, Thorn takes us beyond the bus shelters, the pub car parks and the weekly discos, to the parents who wanted so much for their children and the children who wanted none of it. With great wit and insight, Thorn reconsiders the Green Belt post-war dream so many artists have mocked, and yet so many artists have come from.

Author : Sandra Worth
Publisher : Speaking Volumes
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781645401230

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The Rose of York: LOVE & WAR by Sandra Worth Pdf

2005 GLYPH AWARD WINNER A story so incredible it can only be true. Adventure, deadly passion and intrigue... History's most enduring mystery... A love story that may have inspired a beloved fairy tale and Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet... Known as Shakespeare's villain, Richard III is also the king who gave mankind "Blind Justice" and the legal concepts that flowered into modern Western democracy. Against the sweep of England's fifteenth century Wars of the Roses, Love & War, the first book in The Rose of York series, recreates Richard's tumultuous early years and his love affair with Anne Neville, the traitor's daughter he made his queen. With a Foreword by Roxane C. Murph, M.A., Former Chairman, Richard III Society, and author of Richard III: The Making of a Legend "A deftly written, reader engaging, thoroughly entertaining and enthusiastically recommended historical novel that documents its author as a gifted literary talent.” —Midwest Book Review "A hugely interesting project." —Dennis Huston, Ph.D.,1989 Carnegie Mellon Professor of the Year "Sandra Worth has crafted a historical fiction novel that is a true 'classic'."—Viviane Crystal, Reviewers International Organization "A beautifully written novel, etched by a masterful storyteller."—Wendy J. Dunn, author of Dear Heart, How Like You This?, Winner of the 2003 Glyph Award for Best Fiction – Adult

Author : Philippa Gregory,David Baldwin,Michael Jones
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781451629552

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The Women of the Cousins' War by Philippa Gregory,David Baldwin,Michael Jones Pdf

Draws on original documents, archaeology, and other sources to share the stories of Jacquetta, Duchess of Bedford; Elizabeth Woodville, the wife of Edward IV; and Margaret Beaufort, the founder of the Tudor dynasty.