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The Handfasted Wife (Daughters of Hastings, #1)
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2013
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The Silken Rose (She-Wolves Trilogy, #1)
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2020
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Mistress Cromwell
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2017
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The Swan-Daughter (Daughters of Hastings, #2)
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2014
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The Betrothed Sister (Daughters of Hastings #3)
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2015
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The Damask Rose (She-Wolves Trilogy, #2)
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2021
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The Stone Rose (She-Wolves Trilogy, #3)
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The Stolen Crown: The brilliant historical novel of an Empress fighting for her destiny
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2023
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The Lost Queen
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Sex and Sexuality in Tudor England
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2022
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A Visit to Wolf Hall
Wolf Hall lies on the edge of The Savernake Forest and was the familial home of Jane Seymour, Henry VIII's third wife. This location does not actually enter into my novel The Woman in the Shadows. My novel is about Elizabeth, Thomas Cromwell's wife and it, in fact, ends in 1528 before Cromwell becomes a courtier. None the less, The Woman in the Shadows explores Cromwell's early career and his marr
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“Fear of unwanted pregnancy existed in all classes of people. Henry VIII’s fifth wife, Katherine Howard, was famously reported to have said ‘a woman might meddle with a man and yet conceive no child unless she would herself.”
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“Marriage, despite the ability of King Henry VIII to achieve divorce twice, and the fact that clergymen could marry after the English Reformation, remained for life. Divorce was frowned upon and incredibly difficult to achieve in Protestant England.”
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“Tudors were not prudish about phallic-shaped foods such as asparagus and those that might suggest bawdy jokes such as the newly discovered ‘apricock’.”
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I have finished reading Skios by Michael Frayne which is excellent. I am enjoying Inceptio by Alison Morton, an alternative history set mostly in New York and in the imagined surviving Roma Nova.
