Blood sisters
Subtitle: the women behind the Wars of the Roses
By: Sarah Gristwood
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9780465018314
Subjects: History
Description: A historian describes the drama and family feuding within the Plantagenets, England's fifteenth-century ruling family, from the perspective of the mothers, wives and daughters who wove a web of loyalty and betrayal that ultimately gave way to the Tudors.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1445-1460, Lancaster. Fatal marriage ; "The red rose and the white" ; "A woman's fear" ; "No women's matters" ; "Captain Margaret" ; "Mightiness meets misery"; title: 1460-1471. "To love a king" ; "Fortune's pageant" ; "Domestic broils" ; "That was a queen"; title: 1471-1483. "My lovely queen" ; "Fortune's womb" ; Mother of griefs ; "A golden sorrow"; title: 1483-1485. "Weeping queens" ; "Innocent blood" ; "Look to your wife" ; "Anne my wife" ; "In Bosworth Field"; title: 1485-1509. "True succeeders" ; "Golden sovereignty" ; "The edge of traitors" ; "Civil wounds" ; Like a queen inter me ; "Our noble mother."