num_pages: 272
description: Eighteen year old Jane Shore's beauty is known around London. She is well-educated and intelligent, and when she catches the eye of a wealthy goldsmith her father sees in her an opportunity for an advantageous marriage. But the marriage is soon annulled and she becomes the favourite mistress of Edward IV.Her compassion for London's poor brings her widespread popularity, and she uses her favour with the king to beg forgiveness for those who have angered him. When Edward suddenly dies, she seduces other men, namely Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset and William Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings. 
  
But when Hastings loses the new King's favour she is punished and imprisoned in Ludgate prison. There, away from the protection of her loves, she can only face the horrors of those she once protected. And pray for salvation.
language: English
title: The Goldsmith's Wife
titlecomplete: The Goldsmith's Wife
characters: Edward IV of England, Jane Shore
genres: Fiction, Historical, 15th Century, British Literature, Romance, Medieval, Novels, Historical Fiction, Historical Romance, Plantagenet
ratings_count: 613
publisher: Fawcett