Reading List by Jennie for January through March 2020

[image error] She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth by Helen Castor

This book was a bit dense for flighty me, but it was also a very absorbing and informative history of the four women who attempted to sort-of-kind-of rule England before Elizabeth I. Those women were the Empress Matilda, who fought her cousin Stephen for the crown; Eleanor of Aquitaine, who fought her own husband, Henry II; Isabella of France, who plotted against *her* husband, the feckless Edward II; and Margaret of...