Wicked women of Tudor England : Queens, Aristocrats, Commoners

Wicked Women of Tudor England: Queens, Aristocrats, Commoners (Queenship and Power)

Just a quick post to bring to your attention a new book that will be released on April 10, 2012 called ‘Wicked women of Tudor England : Queens, Aristocrats, Commoners (Queenship and Power)’ by Retha M. Warnicke.

Contents

I have not been able to find a synopsis but did find mention of a project that Warnicke worked on entitled ‘Re-Inventing the Wicked Women of Tudor England’ described here as revealing:

‘how historians have validated negative gossip about Alice More, Anne Boleyn, Katherine Howard, the Duchess of Somerset and the Countess of Leicester. This gossip, mostly mined from diplomatic dispatches or Catholic polemical literature, was spread by individuals who had little or no personal contact with the women they slandered. The context for her research is the gender and cultural hierarchy that privileged men.’

Anne Seymour, Duchess of Somerset (née Stanhope)

For those of you interested in reading Warnicke’s article ‘Inventing the Wicked Women of Tudor England: Alice More, Anne Boleyn, and Anne Stanhope’, originally published in Quidditas: Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association, Vol. 20 (1999), click here.

I will endeavour to keep you updated as more information on this title arises.