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Mary I

the history of an unhappy Tudor Queen
1980
A biography of the daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon who, during a brief reign, tried to bring Protestant England back to the Roman Catholic Church.

The Queen's Fool

2004
Hannah Green, a fourteen-year-old Jewish girl, finds herself caught in the rivalry between Queen Mary and her half sister, Elizabeth, after her ability to foresee the future leads her to work for the Queen as a spy.

Bloody Mary

1978
A biography of Mary Tudor, sixteenthcentury Queen of England, whose life and reign were marred by religious divisions within the nation.

The poyson garden

an Elizabethan mystery
1999
When the members of Queen Mary's court are killed, the queen's half sister, Princess Elizabeth, is called on to find the killer before he takes his final victim.

The maid, the witch, and the cruel queen

2006
A poor serving girl conspires to save an innocent woman that Lord Scuggate is planning to burn as a witch in order to impress the queen.

In the time of the poisoned Queen

1998
Nicholas Segalla, a time-traveling scholar and diplomat, steps into the mystery surrounding the predicted, and eagerly awaited demise of England's Queen Mary in 1558.

Innocent traitor

a novel of Lady Jane Grey
2006
An historical fiction depicting the life and reign of Lady Jane Grey, who finds herself in the middle of civil unrest that plagued the House of Tudor during the sixteenth century.

Mary Tudor

a life
1989
A reappraisal of Mary Tudor's life as an English monarch.

The Queen's fool

a novel
2004
Hannah Verde and her father are Jews who have escaped the Spanish Inquisition by moving to England where her father sets up his printing business. There she meets Robert Dudley, the Earl of Leicester, who introduces her to the court of King Edward VI as a "holy" fool, because Hannah can sometimes foretell the future. She stays at court after Edward dies to serve Queen Mary I and at the same time is also accepted by her half-sister, Elizabeth. Hannah soon finds her loyalties divided and she is at the center of the intrigue to replace the Catholic Queen Mary with the Protestant Princess Elizabeth.

Mary, Bloody Mary

2000
Mary Tudor, who would reign briefly as Queen of England during the mid sixteenth century, tells the story of her troubled childhood as daughter of King Henry VIII.

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