The Tudor era belongs to its women. No other period of English History has produced so many notable and interesting women, and into other period have they so powerfully influenced the course of political events. Mary Tudor, Elizabeth 1 and, at moments of high drama, Mary Queen of Scots dominated the political scene for more than half a century, while in the previous fifty years Henry VIII's marital escapades brought six more women to the centre of attention. In this book the women of the royal family are the central characters; the royal women set the style and between them they provide a dazzling variety of personalities as well as illustrating almost every aspect of life as it affected women in Tudor England. We know what they ate, how they dressed, the books they read and the letters they wrote. Even the greatest of them suffered the universal legal and physiological disabilities of womanhood - some survived them, some went under. Now revised and updated, Alison Plowden's beautifully written account of the women behind the scenes and at the forefront of sixteenth-century English history will be welcomed by anyone interested in exploring this popular period of history from the point of view of the women who made it.
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By Frostycat
Format:Paperback
I bought this book because the jacket implied it would enlighten me about the lives of women in the Tudor period, both aristocratic and common. What it actually did was re-tell the story of the Tudor Royal family (again!). I actually did not learn much at all about women in Tudor times (eg what they wore, how they spoke, what they did all day etc), and learned nothing at all about the average 'woman in the street'. OK, the evidence must be pretty scanty, but this is what I believed the book would be about. It wasn't. It was just another re-telling of the Tudors' story(albeit concentrating on the females), and at the end I was just as in the dark about these 15th century women and their day-to-day lives as I was at the beginning.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
By Mrs. D. J. Smith
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The subtitle for Plowden's book is "Queens & Commoners" - the book isn't really. As a previous reviewer has said, it's pretty much a brief retelling of the history of the queens of the Tudor dynasty of which there are plenty of accounts around.
Plowden's prose is very readable, but the book fails to deliver on the what the title promises. There is a little about more ordinary women in the opening and ending section, but nothing to enlighten us to any significant degree. We are not even told a lot about the day to day routine of the women who were the Tudor queens, but are stuck with a rehash of the political history of the times. Disappointing.
Plowden's prose is very readable, but the book fails to deliver on the what the title promises. There is a little about more ordinary women in the opening and ending section, but nothing to enlighten us to any significant degree. We are not even told a lot about the day to day routine of the women who were the Tudor queens, but are stuck with a rehash of the political history of the times. Disappointing.
2 of 4 people found the following review helpful
By spaceagents
Format:Paperback
Think again. This book fills in the gaps on what were the common attitudes of the time as well as putting a different perspective on Henry's wives. An interesting and engaging read. Alison Plowden's writing style is very accessible.
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