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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...
Published on April 17, 2020 06:00