Her Highness, the Traitor

from Cariola

The story of Lady Jane Grey, England's "Nine Days' Queen," is a familiar one, but Susan Higgenbotham gives it a new twist by using two alternating narrators, the mothers of Jane and her husband, Guildford Dudley. In some ways, this renders Jane's tragedy as almost peripheral--which is not a bad t...

from Sarah_Gruwell

Higginbotham never fails to please in making history real to her readers; giving vague historical figures a 3D persona and impulses all their own. This work took a bit longer to get into, but she still exceled in these key points. It took a bit longer for me to get into this work than her previou...

from Pattymclpn

I enjoyed this book. This gives us another fresh look on the life of Jane Grey. Yes it is another book about the Tudors, but this one carries a much different portrayal of Lady Jane Grey. It is backed up with research and well done by the author. The author uses the mother of Jane Grey and the mo...

from Auntie-Nanuuq

This is a fictionalized account of the intrigue that surrounded the Grey, Seymour, & Dudley families during the reign of Edward VI and the aspiration of those involved w/ Edward to put Lady Jane Grey & her husband Guildford Dudley on the throne of England in the stead of Mary Tudor.The book was t...

from wagner.sarah35

This novel set in Tudor England tells the story of Lady Jane Grey from the perspective of her mother, Lady Frances Grey and her mother-in-law, Jane Dudley. The two narrators are women clearly involved with pivotal events of their time, yet they are not the typical subjects of history or fiction w...