Claire | November 10, 2010
This is a really tough review for me to write because although Hilary Mantel’s “Wolf Hall” won the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, I just couldn’t get into it. Now, I’m a complete bookworm and love everything from thrillers to Jane Austen, from Jodi Picoult to Charles Dickens, from Stephenie [...]
Claire | October 29, 2009
Author Jeane Westin is a regular visitor to The Elizabeth Files and wrote a wonderful guest article – “Did They or Didn’t They? Elizabeth I and Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester” – which got us all commenting our thoughts on Elizabeth’s virginity and her relationship with Dudley. After chatting to Jeane and reading her article [...]
Claire | July 1, 2009
“Pleasures and Pastimes in Tudor England” by historian Alison Sim is a great reference book to use in researching the Tudor era or just to get an idea of what Tudor life was really like. Decribed by its publishers, The History Press, as “A delightful book detailing the games and ways in which the Tudors [...]
