King Henry VIII

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.

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...

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...

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

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

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 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...