{"product_id":"9780061430770-she-wolves-the-women-who-ruled-england-before-elizabeth","title":"Castor Helen - She - Wolves The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth - Paperback","description":"Binding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\nDescription: Helen Castor has an exhilarating narrative gift . Readers will love this book finding it wholly absorbing and rewarding. Hilary Mantel Booker Prize - winning author of Wolf Hall In the tradition of Antonia Fraser David Starkey and Alison Weir prize - winning historian Helen Castor delivers a compelling eye - opening examination of women and power in England witnessed through the lives of six women who exercised power against all odds and one who never got the chance. With the death of Edward VI in 1553, England for the first time would have a reigning queen. The question was: Who? Four women stood upon the crest of history: Katherine of Aragon's daughter Mary; Anne Boleyn's daughter Elizabeth; Mary Queen of Scots; and Lady Jane Grey. But over the centuries other exceptional women had struggled to push the boundaries of their authority and influence and been vilified as she - wolves for their ambitions. Revealed in vivid detail the stories of Eleanor of Aquitaine Isabella of France Margaret of Anjou and the Empress Matilda expose the paradox that England's next female leaders would confront as the Tudor throne lay before them man ruled woman but these women sought to rule a nation.\u003cbr\u003e\nTitle: She - Wolves The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth\u003cbr\u003e\nAuthor(s): Castor Helen\u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: Harpercollins\u003cbr\u003e\nBarcode: 9780061430770\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 496 Pages\u003cbr\u003e\nLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003e\nPublication Date: 1\/31\/2012\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Castor Helen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51332876009777,"sku":"IN-G-9780061430770","price":20.52,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0644\/6759\/9594\/files\/9780061430770.jpg?v=1760942951","url":"https:\/\/bookdelivered.com\/products\/9780061430770-she-wolves-the-women-who-ruled-england-before-elizabeth","provider":"Book Delivered","version":"1.0","type":"link"}