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8:11 am
October 31, 2010
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I like Mary I. I think sometimes we get so caught up in the Mary involved in the Protestant Reformation and her treatment of the Reformists that we forget that there was a person in there. Likely, a very hurt woman who was maligned throughout her early adulthood for her beliefs and her bloodline by her FATHER and I think that hurt Mary very much and affected much of what she did for the remainder of her life.
Having said that, can someone recommend a good biography on Mary? I'd like to read more about her.
Thanks!
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8:22 am
February 24, 2010
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I have just read a good book about Mary I. The First Queen of England, by Linda Porter. Gives great insight into this lady's life.
8:56 am
June 7, 2010
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I enjoyed David Loades's Mary Tudor: A Life. Mind you, it's an older publication (I read the 1989 edition), but I found Loades to be sensitive and empathetic to Mary, and expertly debunked the whole Bloody Mary nickname. I found the human Mary Tudor come to life, and I felt sorry for the one delighted child turn into a extremist Catholic completley desimated by anger and revenge. Very sad life.
I've read some excellent reviews about Linda Porter's book, although I've not read it myself.
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10:03 am
November 18, 2010
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I liked Linda Porter's biography too. Carolly Erickson also has a reasonable biography.
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2:51 pm
January 9, 2010
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I agree, Linda Porter's bio on Mary is an excellent read. It perhaps didn't go into the persecutions as much as I would've liked though. Also worth checking out is Anna Whitelock's Mary Tudor: England's First Queen. I think that may have a different subtitle in the States though, I can't quite remember.
3:18 am
February 3, 2011
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MegC said:
I like Mary I. I think sometimes we get so caught up in the Mary involved in the Protestant Reformation and her treatment of the Reformists that we forget that there was a person in there. Likely, a very hurt woman who was maligned throughout her early adulthood for her beliefs and her bloodline by her FATHER and I think that hurt Mary very much and affected much of what she did for the remainder of her life.
Having said that, can someone recommend a good biography on Mary? I'd like to read more about her.
Thanks!
Mary was the subject of my MA dissertation, so I have read nearly all the biographies on her. The two I would recommend above the others are:
David Loades, Mary Tudor: A Life (Oxford, 1989).
Judith Richards, Mary Tudor (London and New York, 2008).
For a complete list of biographies:
"Much as her form seduc'd the sight,
Her eyes could ev'n more surely woo;"
