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Helen Castor

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Biographies & Memoirs, History

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Helen Castor is a historian of medieval England and a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. She directed studies in History at Sidney for eight years before deciding to concentrate on writing history for a wider readership.

Her book Blood & Roses (Faber, 2004, published in revised form in the US by HarperCollins, 2006) is a biography of the fifteenth-century Paston family, whose letters are the earliest great collection of private correspondence surviving in the English language. Blood & Roses was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction in 2005, and was awarded the Beatrice White Prize (for outstandingly scholarly work in the field of English Literature before 1590) by the English Association in 2006.

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Average rating: 3.84 · 579 ratings · 107 reviews · 3 distinct works

	She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth 3.87 avg rating — 499 ratings — published 2011 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Blood & Roses 3.69 avg rating — 78 ratings — published 2004 — 8 editions	My rating:
	The King, the Crown, and the Duchy of Lancaster: Public Authority and Private Power, 1399-1461 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2000	My rating:

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