Episode 210 – Katherine Parr’s Giftbooks & Henry VIII’s Marginalia with Professor Micheline White

Guest Bio

Micheline White is Associate Professor in the College of the Humanities and the Department of English at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. Her research focuses on women and religious literature and culture in Tudor England. She has edited three volumes of essays: in 2018 she co-edited (with Leah Knight and Elizabeth Sauer) Early Modern Women’s Bookscapes: Reading, Ownership, Circulation (University of Michigan Press). She is the editor of English Women, Religion, and Textual Production, 1500–1625 (Ashgate, 2011) and of Secondary Work on Early Modern Women Writers: Isabella Whitney, Aemilia Lanyer, and Anne Lock (Ashgate, 2009). Her work on Katherine Parr has appeared in the Times Literary Supplement and in academic journals, and has been featured in interviews with the CBC radio’s Tapestry and the Anglican Communion News Service. She is completing a monograph on Royal Women and the Production of the Tudor Book of Common Prayer.

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Natalie Grueninger speaks with Professor Micheline White about Katherine Parr’s giftbooks and Henry VIII’s marginalia.

Tune in to hear Natalie and Micheline discuss:

– Micheline’s discovery of some previously overlooked marginalia written by Henry VIII

– The 1544 Psalms or Prayers

– The politically sensitive texts that Parr translated

– Katherine Parr’s role in disseminating wartime propaganda

– Deluxe copies of Katherine’s books

– Henry VIII’s marginalia and what it reveals about the king’s preoccupations and state of mind in the final years of his life

– The role Katherine played in the reform movement at the beginning of Edward VI’s reign

– The ways in which Katherine influenced the Princess Elizabeth

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