Buy this book on-line WHITELOCK, ANNA: : MARY TUDOR: England's First QueenLONDON.BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING LTD.,2009. ISBN 9780747590187.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,but price-clipped dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,matt,colour,subject's portrait paintings illustrated dw/dj panels with white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.Top edges slightly aged/
toned and minimally grubbed but generally clean,fore-edges less affected and therefore generally brighter and cleaner with some very,very light ageing/toning; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - would appear unread? Book is lightly cocked.Generally bright,crisp, clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original maroon cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip,and immaculate plain white eps.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,ixpp+1-368pp [paginated] includes prologue,Pts 1-4 (comprising 66 chapters,an epilogue,8pp contemporary colour illus/reproductions,in one block,
between pp180/1,notes,a select biblio,
acknowledgements,and an index.Plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,contents list/table with Tudor genealogical family tree to recto,prose/ quote extract,separate notes on author and type (font) used.
Mary Tudor was the first woman to be crowned Queen of England.Her accession,in the summer of 1553,took place against the odds and it was,in many ways,emblematic of her life.
Anna Whitelock's assured,impassioned and absorbing debut tells the remarkable story of a woman who was a princess one minute,
feted by the courts of Europe,and a disinherited bastard the next.It tells of her Spanish heritage,the unbreakable bond between Mary and her mother,Katherine of Aragon; of her childhood,adolescence, rivalry with her sister Elizabeth,and finally her womanhood.It explores the formative experiences that made Mary the determined and single-minded queen she became.She had fought to survive,fought to preserve her integrity and her right to hear the Catholic mass,and finally she fought for the throne.
As Queen of England,Mary retained her tenacity.She married Philip of Spain against much opposition and struggled passionately to restore Catholicism,the religion to which she had remained true all her life.
Yet whilst she was brave as a queen,as a woman she was dependent and prone to anxiety.In an age when marriages were made for political and diplomatic advantage, Mary married a man she truly loved but whom did not share her passion.
It is this tension between Mary's dominance as queen and her tragedy as a woman that is crucial to understanding her reign.Her private traumas of phantom pregnancies,debilitating illnesses and unrequited love were played out in the public glare of the fickle Tudor
court. The Mary that emerges is not the weak-willed failure of traditional narratives,but a complex figure of immense courage,determination and humanity.
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