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Here's a question. I'd be tempted to add Adam Nicolson's book, Quarrel with a King, which is about multiple generations of the Herbert family (including the guy who married Katherine Parr's sister, their son, etc., including Mary Sidney (who married into the clan) and her brother Philliip Sidney. These were crucial Tudor figures, from Henry VII's day right through the end of the dynasty, but the book writes about them and their relationship to the crown vs about the Tudors, per se. It sheds a lot of light on Tudor England, but (a) it continues past that and (b) it's not about the Tudors per se. Does that make it ineligible for this list? I'd find this kind of list more interesting with a slightly broader scope, by which I mean books about Shakespeare, etc., or Drake and Raleigh, as well as the Tudors themselves. Otherwise, we get the the same usual suspects -- all the Alison Weir books, Antonia Fraser, etc. etc. and it starts to feel like an echo chamber. Whereas casting a broader net might make members more curious about other parts of the Tudor world. Just a thought from the peanut gallery...
I am all for a broad spec for the shelf. The post came from my wandering through our little library and finding 5 books that had nothing to do with Tudor time period, people involved in the Tudor court dramas, etc. I think without getting too far off topic it is entirely plausible to have more than George, Plaidy, Weir, Fraiser, Starkley, etc etc.
To me, that's what would seem most useful. To find the Starkeys and Weirs, you just need to do a cursory Google or Amazon search. But the kinds of things that are more intriguing may not be "the Tudors" but Tudor-related -- a book about Shakespeare's times, which of course would be Elizabeth's times, and the themes of his plays have a lot to say about Tudor society. As a user, that's what I would find most intriguing. I don't know if this is possible, but we could always annotate the books to note the links to the Tudors.
Perhaps a "tudor-related" shelf would be good. For books not directly about the Tudors, but about their times in general.Creating a new shelf would be easy enough.
If it is all right, I added my current read - a biography of Francis Drake
Sir Francis DrakeWhile not explicitly about Elizabeth, Sudgen does go into Elizabeth's foriegn policy vs a ve Spain and her philosphy on privateers and raiding the Spainish Main and her treasure fleets
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Mods, if you feel it is not "Tudor" enough please feel free to delete it.
Thank you for your current read input. It brings back fond memories of grammar school where I first read about Sir Francis Drake. Hopefully, Sir Francis Drake is still included in early education curriculum.
I added the first book of the Robert Carey mystery series
It is currently a six book series.
The main character is Elizabeth's grandnephew/second cousin/first cousin once removed? (his father was Elizabeth's first cousin, Henry Carey) and IRL the man who took the news of her death to James I/VI
C.F. Chisholm is a pen name of Patricia Finney. She already has a couple of books on the book shelf
I just added
byHester W. ChapmanIt was first published almost forty years ago but still has some insightful info on Henry VIII,Anne Boleyn and Tudor court life.
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Books mentioned in this topic
Anne Boleyn (other topics)A Famine of Horses (other topics)
Sir Francis Drake (other topics)
If a book mentions it takes place during (for instance) the Queen Elizabeth I period but that is mentioned as a backdrop or timeline, it's not a book about the Tudors.
The bookshelf is still a little slim but we (the mods) gladly accept anyone in the group adding a Tudor book. The bookshelf is a great place to find books for your TBR list!
Thanks everybody for making this such a spectacular place to come talk (and gush) with other Tudor history Lovers!