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Elizabeth Fremantle

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Elizabeth Fremantle is the critically acclaimed author of Tudor and Elizabethan set novels: Queen's Gambit, Sisters of Treason, Watch the Lady and The Girl in the Glass Tower. Her most recent novel, published under the name EC Fremantle, is the historical thriller The Poison Bed, described by MJ Carter as 'a Jacobean Gone Girl.'

She lives in London and Norfolk

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	Queen's Gambit (The Tudor Trilogy, #1) 3.79 avg rating — 3,837 ratings — published 2012 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sisters of Treason (The Tudor Trilogy, #2) 3.80 avg rating — 2,143 ratings — published 2014 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Watch the Lady (The Tudor Trilogy, #3) 3.88 avg rating — 794 ratings — published 2015 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Girl in the Glass Tower 3.72 avg rating — 614 ratings — published 2016 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Queen's Gambit Free 1st Chapter 3.89 avg rating — 70 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Poison Bed by E.C. Fremantle, Elizabeth Fremantle (Goodreads Author) 3.61 avg rating — 862 ratings — published 2018 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mechanics' Institute Review: New Stories from Birkbeck: 13 by Kit de Waal (Goodreads Author), Elizabeth Fremantle (Goodreads Author) , Nadim Safdar 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Sometimes a story insists on being told in a particular way. When I started work on The Poison BedI had published four novels about historical women embroiled in the dangerous power play of the Tudor and Elizabethan courts. The place and time of their setting was defined by jeopardy, when those who stepped out of lived under the threat of execution. These novels certainly had elements of the poli Read more of this blog post »

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Dark Aemilia: A Novel of Shakespeare's Dark Lady

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Elizabeth Fremantle said: " Wonderfully, wildly romantic historical fiction novel, based on the life of the little-known but often neglected poet Aemilia Lanyer. "

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“I remember Maman once saying of the old Queen that power corrupts. I have thought much on it and it seems to me that it is not power that corrupts, but the fear of its loss," she pauses with a sigh. After all Mary and Elizabeth Tudor were just girls once, not so different from my sisters, or any other girls, for the that matter. It is fear that changed them.”
― Elizabeth Fremantle, Sisters of Treason

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“Katherine and the children have made paper boats and are floating them on the moat to see which one stays up the longest, contriving always that Edward’s should be the winner. He is learning from an early age that the world conspires magically to favor him. After all, he will be King one day and that is the way of things for kings.”
― Elizabeth Fremantle, Queen's Gambit

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What book about the Tudors or Tudor England would you like for the group to read as our July 2016 Group Read?

Katherine of Aragon, The True Queen by Alison Weir

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The Girl in the Glass Tower by Elizabeth Fremantle

8 votes, 13.1%

Elizabeth's London: Everyday Life in Elizabethan London by Liza Picard

8 votes, 13.1%

The Concubine by Norah Lofts

6 votes, 9.8%

The Semper Sonnet by Seth Margolis

4 votes, 6.6%

Martyr by Rory Clements

4 votes, 6.6%

The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake: 1577-1580 by R. Samuel Bawlf

2 votes, 3.3%

John Dudley: The Life of Lady Jane Grey's Father-in-Law by Christine Hartweg

1 vote, 1.6%

Je Anne Boleyn: Struck with the Dart of Love by Sandra Vasoli

1 vote, 1.6%

The Witchfinder's Well by Jonathan Posner

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“I must shape my own coat according to my cloth, but it will not be after the fashion of this world, God willing, but fit for me.”
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