Nancy Lenz Harvey
Autor(a) de The Rose and the Thorn: The Lives of Mary and Margaret Tudor
Obras de Nancy Lenz Harvey
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- Obras
- 4
- Membros
- 60
- Popularidade
- #277,520
- Avaliação
- 2.8
- Resenhas
- 1
- ISBNs
- 6
To those who might argue that there is little information available, then I ask what was the point of an alleged biography. A biography of a poorly documented figure can be a valuable opportunity for the author to chronicle the details of life that get skipped over with more famous characters. I would have expected, for example, to learn the details of the life of a princess of this era. Perhaps (I am making this up) she was awakened after dawn by a nurse, and dressed in clothing that had been warming before a brazier if the weather was cold. She was then taken to meet her parents before Mass, and receive their blessings. After Mass, if her parents were not busy, the family might have a relatively informal breakfast. Her parents would then leave to hunt or meet with advisors or ambassadors, and Elizabeth and her siblings would return to the nursery where they would play outside (weather permitting). As they became older, they would begin lessons in English, Latin and French. Etc. More details than are herein recounted are available about court functions that she attended, such as her brother Richard's wedding. As for her adult life, I would expect more information than we got about her confinements, which were really confinement in a specially prepared suite, in those days; her churching; her finances; letters (which I understand are still extant).
Such information as we get seems oddly organized. As Harvey tells us in her preface, she has "adapted some of the techniques of the novel." The biography is organized around Elizabeth's last pregnancy, with little novelized sections proceeding each chapter. Thus, information about confinement is given with her last pregnancy, not her first. I have learned more about her relationship with her husband and mother-in-law in books about other people, such as Anne Wroe's book on Perkin Warbeck (The Perfect Prince).
Not much of an addition to information about the Yorkist-Tudor eras.… (mais)