She-wolves: The Women who Ruled England Before ElizabethFaber & Faber, 2010 - 474 pages The stories of these women - told here in all their vivid humanity - illustrate the paradox which the female heirs to the Tudor throne had no choice but to negotiate. Man was the head of woman; and the king was the head of all. How, then, could a woman be king, how could royal power lie in female hands? |
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Long Live the Queen? | 25 |
To promote a woman to bear rule superiority dominion | 32 |
LADY OF ENGLAND | 35 |
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