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Product Description: The first volume of Plowden's acclaimed Elizabethan quartet charts the first 25 years of Elizabeth's life Alison Plowden's captivating portrait of the young Elizabeth Tudor, bringing to life her many identities as ruler, woman, and politician, is a triumph of narrative history...read more

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9780752459431, titled "The Young Elizabeth" | Reprint edition (History Pr Ltd, May 1, 2011), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: The first volume of Plowden's acclaimed Elizabethan quartet charts the first 25 years of Elizabeth's life Alison Plowden's captivating portrait of the young Elizabeth Tudor, bringing to life her many identities as ruler, woman, and politician, is a triumph of narrative history.

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Young Victoria was an engaging creature, high-spirited and eager to be 'amused'. But her early years were difficult ones. Fatherless from the age of eight months, she was brought up at Kensington Palace in an atmosphere thick with family feuds, backbiting and jealousy - the focus of conflicting ambitions.

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9780750946995, titled "Young Victoria" | New edition (History Pr Ltd, May 1, 2011), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Young Victoria was an engaging creature, high-spirited and eager to be 'amused'.
9780750925747 | Sutton Pub Ltd, November 1, 2000, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Born in 1819, Victoria was the daughter of Edward, Duke of Kent.

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9780750932424 | Sutton Pub Ltd, November 1, 2004, cover price $24.95

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For most, Lady Jane Grey is the 'nine days queen', the child who was used as a pawn in the power politics of the Tudor realm by her parents, the Suffolks and Northumberlands. This title tells the story of her life and death, but also reveals her to be a woman of unusual strength of conviction, with an intelligence and steady faith beyond her years.

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9780750928168 | Sutton Pub Ltd, August 1, 2003, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: The tragic life of the 'Nine Days Queen' and her role in Tudor history is fully explored in this exciting, insightful 'royal biography' of one of the lesser known figures in British history.

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9780750937696 | New edition (Trafalgar Square, August 1, 2004), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: For most, Lady Jane Grey is the 'nine days queen', the child who was used as a pawn in the power politics of the Tudor realm by her parents, the Suffolks and Northumberlands.

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Product Description: The relationship between Queen Elizabeth I of England and her cousin, Mary Queen of Scots, is one of the most complex, tempestuous and fascinating in history. United in blood but divided by religion, the two women were in some ways uniquely close; in others, poles apart...read more

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9780750932394 | Sutton Pub Ltd, October 1, 2003, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: The relationship between Queen Elizabeth I of England and her cousin, Mary Queen of Scots, is one of the most complex, tempestuous and fascinating in history.

A biography of the great family which ruled England from the late 1400s to the early 1600s. In this personal rather than political history, historical writer Plowden examines the origins of the family and interweaves the lives of the five Tudor monarchs with lesser-known branches of the tree. Originally published in 1976 by Weidenfeld and Nicolson. Includes b&w illustrations. Distributed by Books International. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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9780750918909 | Rev sub edition (Sutton Pub Ltd, January 1, 1999), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: A biography of the great family which ruled England from the late 1400s to the early 1600s.
9780812820799 | Stein & Day Pub, September 1, 1976, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Examines the origins of an astonishing royal family and recounts the lives of the five Tudor monarchs, from Henry VII to Elizabeth I

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9780750932400 | Subsequent edition (Trafalgar Square, September 1, 2003), cover price $16.95
9780812861235 | Stein & Day Pub, October 1, 1983, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Examines the origins of an astonishing royal family and recounts the lives of the five Tudor monarchs, from Henry VII to Elizabeth I

Henrietta Maria, youngest child of Henry IV of France, married Charles I in 1625, but her French attendants and Roman Catholic beliefs made her unpopular in England.

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9780750918824 | Sutton Pub Ltd, May 1, 2001, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Henrietta Maria, youngest child of Henry IV of France, married Charles I in 1625, but her French attendants and Roman Catholic beliefs made her unpopular in England.

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9780750929899 | Sutton Pub Ltd, October 1, 2002, cover price $11.99

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Product Description: This volume gives an account of the women both behind the scenes and at the forefront of 16th-century English history, including Mary Tudor, Elizabeth I, Mary Queen of Scots, and Henry VIII's six wives. The women of the royal family are the central characters; what they ate, how they dressed, the books they read, and the letters they wrote are all addressed...read more

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9780689109447, titled "Tudor Women: Queens and Commoners" | Macmillan Pub Co, January 1, 1979, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Studies the lives of the women of the royal houses of Tudor and Stuart in late-sixteenth-century England as they illustrate nearly every aspect of life for English women of the time

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9780750928809, titled "Tudor Women: Queens and Commoners" | History Pr Ltd, June 1, 2002, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: This volume gives an account of the women both behind the scenes and at the forefront of 16th-century English history, including Mary Tudor, Elizabeth I, Mary Queen of Scots, and Henry VIII's six wives.
9780750920056 | Revised edition (Sutton Pub Ltd, November 1, 1998), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: The Tudor era belongs to its women.

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Product Description: This book offers a first-hand account of the heroic women who played an active part in the war between King and Parliament in the 17th century. The Royalists include Queen Henrietta Maria, who fled abroad with some of the Crown jewels to raise money and Mary Banks, wife of the King's Privy Councilor, who defended Corge Castle during an epic three-month siege, forcing the storming Roundheads to withdraw by heaving hot embers over the battlements...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780750912211 | Sutton Pub Ltd, April 1, 1998, cover price $36.95

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9780750925525 | Sutton Pub Ltd, October 1, 2000, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: This book offers a first-hand account of the heroic women who played an active part in the war between King and Parliament in the 17th century.

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Product Description: This is the concluding part of Alison Plowden's biography. It presents Elizabeth I at the peak of her form - tough, vigorous and autocratic, her appetite for the pleasures and problems of life seemingly unquenchable. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780750921985 | Sutton Pub Ltd, April 1, 2000, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: This is the concluding part of Alison Plowden's biography.

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Product Description: Born in 1533, Elizabeth I was the product of the doomed marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. In 1558, on her Catholic sister Mary's death, she ascended the throne and reigned for 45 years. Loved and respected by her subjects and idolized by future generations, Gloriana's fierce devotion to her country and its people made her England's fairest queen and icon...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780750921978 | Sutton Pub Ltd, January 1, 2000, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Born in 1533, Elizabeth I was the product of the doomed marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn.

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Product Description: Elizabeth I is perhaps England's most famous monarch. Born in 1533, the product of the doomed marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth was heir to her father's title, then disinherited and finally imprisoned by her half sister Mary...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780750921961 | Sutton Pub Ltd, September 1, 1999, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Elizabeth I is perhaps England's most famous monarch.

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Recounts the first twenty-five years of the life of England's Virgin Queen, including her childhood, personality, private life, and romantic intrigues (view table of contents)

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9780750921923 | Revised edition (Sutton Pub Ltd, April 1, 1999), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Recounts the first twenty-five years of the life of England's Virgin Queen, including her childhood, personality, private life, and romantic intrigues

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Product Description: Written by an established royal biographer, this is a fresh study of the lives of the six princesses of the House of Stuart who lived through the violent, social and political upheavals of the 17th century. One is the direct ancestress of the present British royal family, one was the mother of a king of England, and one died in prison at the age of 14...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780750916110 | Sutton Pub Ltd, October 1, 1997, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Written by an established royal biographer, this is a fresh study of the lives of the six princesses of the House of Stuart who lived through the violent, social and political upheavals of the 17th century.

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9780312067168 | Palgrave Macmillan, September 1, 1991, cover price $49.95

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Traces the connections between the houses of Suffolk and Tudor, describes Lady Jane Grey's nine-day reign as queen of England, and includes profiles of her family members

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9780531150009 | Franklin Watts, March 1, 1986, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Traces the connections between the houses of Suffolk and Tudor, describes Lady Jane Grey's nine-day reign as queen of England, and includes profiles of her family members

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