Elizabeth Woodville: Mother of the Princes in the Tower - Softcover

Baldwin, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0750938862 ISBN 13: 9780750938860

Publisher: Sutton, 2010

Synopsis

Elizabeth Woodville is a historical character whose life no novelist would ever have dared invent. She has been portrayed as an enchantress, as an unprincipled advancer of her family's fortunes and as a plucky but pitiful queen in Shakespeare's histories. She has been alternatively championed and vilified by her contemporaries and five centuries of historians, dramatists and novelists, but what was she really like? In this revealing account of Elizabeth's life over fifty years David Baldwin sets out to tell the story of this complex and intriguing woman. Was she the malign influence many of her critics held her to be? Was she a sorceress who bewitched Edward IV? What was the fate of her two sons, the 'Princes in the tower'? What did she, of all people, think had become of them, and why did Richard III mount a campaign of vilification against her? David Baldwin brings this misunderstood character back to life.

About this title

About the Author:

David Baldwin is a medieval historian who has taught at the Universities of Leicester and Nottingham for many years. His historical research has focused on the great medieval families in the Midlands and he has contributed articles to historical journals and lectured regularly to societies and conferences in this field. He is the author of six books, The Women of the Cousins' War: The Duchess, The Queen and the King's Mother, The Lost Prince: The Survival of Richard of York, Robin Hood: The English Outlaw Unmasked, Stoke Field: The Last Battle of the Wars of the Roses, and The Kingmaker's Sisters. He lives in Leicester.

About this edition

• Publisher: Sutton
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0750938862
• ISBN 13: 9780750938860
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 240