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- catalog abstract ""Jane Grey's tragedy was her royal blood. As Henry VIII's great-niece she stood perilously close to the throne and from her early childhood was used as a pawn in the deadly power game of Tudor politics. Jane was not happy at home - she once famously remarked that she thought herself in hell in her parents' company - and sought consolation in her studies and the uncompromising Protestantism fashionable in the 1550s." "When it became clear that her cousin Edward VI was dying Jane was forced into marriage with a son of the powerful John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, and confronted with the news that the king had made her his heir. So began her reign as the Nine Days Queen, leading to her imprisonment in the Tower and execution at the age of sixteen." "The circumstances of her life and death inevitably made her a martyr and have so coloured posterity's view of her that it is difficult now to see beyond the familiar image of Protestant saint and heroine. But the real Jane, small, red-haired and freckled, was surely a more disturbing personality than the sentimental myths suggest." "It is forty years since the last full-length study of Jane Grey and this is another look at the brilliantly gifted child who was developing into a passionate, forceful young woman. While there is no doubt that Jane was the sacrificial victim of Tudor realpolitik, Alison Plowden reveals, with insight and skill, the complex intensity of the woman behind the myth."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12890197.
- catalog coverage "Great Britain History Henry VIII, 1509-1547.".
- catalog coverage "Great Britain Kings and rulers Biography.".
- catalog created "2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
- catalog description ""Jane Grey's tragedy was her royal blood. As Henry VIII's great-niece she stood perilously close to the throne and from her early childhood was used as a pawn in the deadly power game of Tudor politics. Jane was not happy at home - she once famously remarked that she thought herself in hell in her parents' company - and sought consolation in her studies and the uncompromising Protestantism fashionable in the 1550s." "When it became clear that her cousin Edward VI was dying Jane was forced into marriage with a son of the powerful John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, and confronted with the news that the king had made her his heir. So began her reign as the Nine Days Queen, leading to her imprisonment in the Tower and execution at the age of sixteen." "The circumstances of her life and death inevitably made her a martyr and have so coloured posterity's view of her that it is difficult now to see beyond the familiar image of Protestant saint and heroine. But the real Jane, small, red-haired and freckled, was surely a more disturbing personality than the sentimental myths suggest." "It is forty years since the last full-length study of Jane Grey and this is another look at the brilliantly gifted child who was developing into a passionate, forceful young woman. While there is no doubt that Jane was the sacrificial victim of Tudor realpolitik, Alison Plowden reveals, with insight and skill, the complex intensity of the woman behind the myth."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-177) and index.".
- catalog extent "ix, 182 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0750928166".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Stroud : Sutton,".
- catalog spatial "England".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain History Henry VIII, 1509-1547.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain Kings and rulers Biography.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog subject "942.052092 21".
- catalog subject "DA345.1.D9 P55 2003".
- catalog subject "Grey, Jane, Lady, 1537-1554.".
- catalog subject "Queens England Biography.".
- catalog subject "Queens Great Britain Biography.".
- catalog title "Lady Jane Grey : nine days queen / Alison Plowden.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".