Description
It is the tragedy of Queen Mary that today, 450 years after her death, she remains the most hated, least understood monarch in English history--remembered best for burning hundreds of Protestant heretics at the stake. Linda Porter's pioneering new biography cuts through the myths to reveal the truth about the first queen to rule England in her own right. Daughter of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon, Mary Tudor was a cultured Renaissance princess who was brought to the throne by an audacious coup. She made a grand marriage to Philip of Spain, but her attempts to revitalize England at home and abroad were cut short by her early death at the age of forty-two. The first popular biography of Mary in thirty years, The Myth of Bloody Mary offers a fascinating, controversial look at this much-maligned queen.
Author: Linda Porter
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Published: 08/04/2009
Pages: 464
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.30d
ISBN13: 9780312564964
ISBN10: 0312564961
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Historical
- Biography & Autobiography | Royalty
- History | Europe | Great Britain | Tudor & Elizabethan Era (1485-1603)
About the Author
Linda Porter has a Ph.D. in history from the University of York, England, and has lectured at universities in New York, worked as a journalist, and been a senior adviser on international public relations to a major telecommunications company. She was the winner of the 2004 Biographers Club/Daily Mail prize in England, which launched her on a new career as an author. She is married with one daughter and lives near London.
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