King Henry VIII

ET 's nephew George Tollet published, with her name, a new, enlarged edition of her work: Poems on Several Occasions. With Anne Boleyn to Henry VIII . An Epistle.

As a child Susan Grosvenor lived with her parents and sister at 30 Upper Grosvenor Street—but only in winter, for summers were spent with the extended family at her grandparents' country estate, Moor Park...

Many of the royal characters in her historical novels had visited this half-timbered house, which dates back to 1400 and performed the function of a lodging for pilgrims heading for Canterbury. The main doorway, in...

In it she used public humiliation in an attempt to persuade her husband to increase her allowance. She denounced him as a literary Cagliostro , political Titus Oates and marital Henry the Eighth—

In Rose Without a Thorn (in which she returns to the topic of Henry VIII 's fifth wife, Katherine Howard ), she again presents her heroine (realistically considering the age she writes of) in terms...

This novel begins as Henry VIII is already thinking about marrying Jane Seymour , and ends at a moment when it seems that Cromwell is triumphant over his enemies (including his former ally Anne Boleyn

She begins with Anne as vehicle for the fantasies of later generations: the way that she herself as a small child was regaled by a nun with the idea that but for this depraved woman...

She compares the parallel stories of the English Reformation under King Henry VIII , which established the Church of England (Anglican or Episcopalian), and the Scottish Reformation under John Knox in 1559, which established the...

John Leland, antiquarian, likely worked as a sub-librarian in the 1530s for Henry VIII 's libraries, but whether or not he was paid for his services is unclear. In 1533 he received a royal commission...

Anne Boleyn , thus introduced as an example of what woman ought not to be, is portrayed as a victim both of her own misguided genius and of the evil passions of a sensual man...

Catherine had been replaced in the affections and the dynastic ambitions of Henry VIII by Anne Boleyn, subject of NL 's 1963 historical novel.

In the following year, 1952, and under the same pseudonym, JP shifted her historical lens for the novel Daughter of Satan, which examines the persecution of witches and Puritans in the 16th and 17th...

Princess Elizabeth (later QEI ) sent her father a New Year's gift: her translation of Katherine Parr 's Prayers or Meditacions into three languages: Latin, French and Italian.

AF turned to a perennially popular subject with her historical study The Six Wives of Henry VIII.

RH decided to write her family story when she read in Holinshed a mention of her father's exploit in the quarrel between Henry VIII and the Pope , and thought her children would appreciate knowing...