Nine Days a Queen: The Short Life and Reign of Lady Jane Grey
10 best books like Nine Days a Queen: The Short Life and Reign of Lady Jane Grey (Ann Rinaldi): Shakespeare's Scribe, Beware, Princess Elizabeth, Queen's Own Fool, Mary, Queen of Scots: Queen Without a Country, How Do I Love Thee?, Petals in the Ashes, Coronation of Glory: The Story of Lady Jane Grey, The Nine Days Queen: A Portrait of Lady Jane Grey, Second Chance Family, Gay Lord Robert
| Author | Gary L. Blackwood |
| ISBN | 0142300667 |
When an outbreak of the deadly Black Plague closes the Globe Theatre, William Shakespeare's acting troupe sets off on a tour of England. Widge, the orphan-turned-actor, knows that he'll be useful on the trip. Not only does he love the stage, but his knack for a unique shorthand has proven him one of the...
| Author | Carolyn Meyer |
| ISBN | 0152045562 |
Imprisonment. Betrayal. Lost love. Murder. What more must a princess endure?
Elizabeth Tudor's teenage and young adult years during the turbulent reigns of Edward and then Mary Tudor are hardly those of a fairy-tale princess. Her mother has been beheaded by Elizabeth's own father, Henry...
| Author | Jane Yolen |
| ISBN | 0698119185 |
Called La Jardiniere, a resourceful and clever jester to the queen's court, Nicola was a most unlikely person to end up "fool" and friend to Mary, Queen of Scots. But Nicola isn't an ordinary comedian clowning before the court; her sharp tongue is rare amongst the fawning nobles. As fate takes Mary from...
| Author | Kathryn Lasky |
| ISBN | 0439194040 |
I read these books when I was little, so I have a very childish adoration for them. However, reading them now I am irritated with the historical inaccuracies since they help perpetuate the lack of knowledge having to do with history in general. MQoS is a very complex figure given a very anglo personality,...
| Author | Nancy Moser |
| ISBN | 0764205013 |
She dreams of love for others but never for herself... Elizabeth Barrett is a published poet--and a virtual prisoner in her own home. Blind family loyalty ties her to a tyrannical father who forbids any of his children to marry. Bedridden by chronic illness, she has resigned herself to simply existing....
| Author | Mary Hooper |
| ISBN | 1582347204 |
This gripping account of London's Great Fire of 1666 is a worthy companion to At the Sign of the Sugared Plum. Only one year after the city suffered such terrible losses during the Plague, London is recovering and Hannah convinces her parents that, with her younger sister Anne's help, she can return to...
Coronation of Glory: The Story of Lady Jane Grey
| Author | Deborah Meroff |
| ISBN | 0921100787 |
Jane Grey was never allowed to forget that she was a Tudor, fifth in the royal line of succession after King Henry VIII. To Jane, this knowledge was a shadow across the peaceful days in her beloved valley home in the north of England.
The threat was a distant one until Henry died and Jane's cousin...
The Nine Days Queen: A Portrait of Lady Jane Grey
| Author | Mary M. Luke |
| ISBN | 0688057713 |
This book, which purports to be nonfiction, is a heavily fictionalized book about Lady Jane Grey. It's essentially a novel, and should have been published as one.
It's common for biographers to speculate as to what their subjects might have felt; Luke, however, takes this a step further and...
| Author | Winnie Griggs |
| ISBN | 0373828772 |
Mitch Hammond is a man of his word. And as far as Cora Beth Collins is concerned, that's a problem. The stubborn sheriff has vowed never to love again, for fear of wounding someone else. The most he can offer Cora Beth is marriage in name only. And with no other way to adopt two runaway orphans and keep...
| Author | Jean Plaidy |
| ISBN | 0330025805 |
There was only one thing which Robert Dudley could not do, and that was to make any woman cease to love him. Now that Elizabeth was Queen of England, the romance which began with their shared captivity in the grim Tower of London blossomed into a mutual longing.. With the crown so nearly in his grasp, how...
Few English monarchs have a worse reputation than Mary Tudor. She has been seen both as a religious fanatic who tried against the will of her people to reverse the course of the Reformation and as the pawn of her husband, Philip II of Spain - her infatuation with whom led her to betray England's vital interests.
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| Author | Karleen Bradford |
| ISBN | 0590716174 |
At fifteen years of age, upon the death of her cousin, Edward, Lady Jane Grey was forced to accept the crown of England. She was queen for only nine days, however. Edward's eldest sister, Mary, soon challenged Jane for the throne, with tragic results. This is the true story of a bright and intelligent young...
