She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth, Paperback/Helen Castor
Descriere
"Helen Castor has an exhilarating narrative gift. . . . Readers will love this book, finding it wholly absorbing and rewarding." --Hilary Mantel, Booker Prize-winning author of Wolf Hall In the tradition of Antonia Fraser, David Starkey, and Alison Weir, prize-winning historian Helen Castor delivers a compelling, eye-opening examination of women and power in England, witnessed through the lives of six women who exercised power against all odds--and one who never got the chance. Exploring the narratives of the Empress Matilda, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Isabella of France, Margaret of Anjou, and other "she-wolves," as well as that of the Nine Days' Queen, Lady Jane Grey, Castor invokes a magisterial discussion of how much--and how little--has changed through the centuries.
Despre autor
Helen Ruth Castor este o istorică britanică specializată în perioada medievală și Tudor, precum și o prezentatoare de radio și televiziune pentru BBC. A predat istoria la Universitatea din Cambridge și este autoarea unor cărți, printre care Blood and Roses (2004) și She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth (2010).
