She-Wolves

By Helen Castor

Book Overview

"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. Exploring the narratives of the Empress Matilda, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Isabella of France, Margaret of Anjou, and other "she-wolves," as well as that of the Nine Days' Queen, Lady Jane Grey, Castor invokes a magisterial discussion of how much--and how little--has changed through the centuries.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0061430765
• ISBN13: 9780061430763
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Harper
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"