King Henry VIII

RH situates her own story within that of her family, and sets the family story in the context of the clash between the reformed and traditional systems of Christianity. She opens with Of My Father...

The play is a Senecan tragedy, written for the closet, not the public stage, though it is worth remembering that upper-class circles reading or performing such plays were connoisseurs of the highly dramatised masque...

Following chapters Of Hell, and Judgment and Of the Soul, and Temptation, she laments a growth in sectarianism and decline in good works. In Of the Romish Religion, she criticizes Catholic beliefs and...

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...

The two or three that followed included The Armourer's House, set in the reign of Henry VIII , 1951, and Brother Dusty-Feet, 1952, in which a boy and his dog run away to...

Around the age of fourteen JI began penning poetry on the window shutters of her bedroom, after having been denied paper by her strictly evangelical mother . Her earliest surviving poem is Katherine of Aragon

In the novel Murder Most Royal, JP viewed Henry VIII 's serial marriages through the eyes of two of his wives (both executed at his command), Anne Boleyn and Catherine (sometimes Katherine) Howard ...

JP launched under this name another historical trilogy, about Catherine of Aragon (sometimes spelled Katharine or Katherine), Henry VIII 's first wife, with the Tudor novel Katharine, the Virgin Widow.

NL published another historical work, The Concubine: A Novel Based Upon the Life of Anne Boleyn , Henry VIII 's Second Wife.

JP followed this Tudor novel with another involving Henry VIII , this time The Sixth Wife, published in 1953, about Katherine Parr , who married Henry in 1543 (ten years after Anne Boleyn had...

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.

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...