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WELCOME TO THE HOME PAGE FOR
A WHO'S WHO OF TUDOR WOMEN
NEWS!
3 VOLUME PRINT EDITION AND
REVISED E-BOOK AVAILABLE NOW
A Who's Who of Tudor Women began as a project to update and correct my very
out-of-date collective biography, Wives and Daughters: The Women of
Sixteenth-Century England, published by a small scholarly press in 1984.
Various editions were online from 2010 until October 2020, when if first became
available as an e-book.
I have now edited the 2020 e-book edition
of A Who's Who of Tudor Women in order to publish a print version. If
you already own a copy of the 2020 e-book there is be no need to buy the new
one. The basic information is the same and I haven't added anything. The ISBN
and price remain the same.
$7.99
What has changed? The entries have
been revised to make them read more smoothly and with less wordiness. Some
pronoun references needed clarification. In other cases, I rearranged the
material so that the entry's life story is now told in chronological order.
Since print-on-demand paperbacks have page
limitations and the minimum price depends on length, I looked for places to cut
extraneous information. My personal opinions were the first to be eliminated.
Next was the sentence "They had no children" because, when you stop
and think about it, we can't be sure that's true. The 2020 edition also
included variant spellings of surnames and alternate first names—Anne or Agnes,
Ellen or Helen, Christian or Christiana, and so on. For the most part, the
revised edition only uses the most common spelling for each person's name.
The text of the print version matches the
2025 e-book edition. I've divided the entries so that women with surnames
beginning with A-F are in Volume One, G-O in Volume Two, and P-Z in Volume
Three. All three volumes include the "Titles Used in Tudor Times" and
the "Lists of Women at Court," as well as a master list of all
entries. I have kept the price as low as possible given the page count and
printing costs. If you buy one of the print volumes for $29.99, I receive only
$1.83. Any bookstore or library should be able to order copies using the ISBN numbers
and they are available from all the usual online booksellers.
$29.99
ISBN
979-8-232-68666-6
$26.99
ISBN
979-8-231-71244-1
$29.99
979-8-232-41569-3
A
Who's Who of Tudor Women contains
over 2300 mini-biographies of women who lived at least part of their lives
between 1485 and 1603. Entries are arranged alphabetically by the maiden name
of the subject or by married surname if her birth name is unknown. Each entry
is cross-referenced by married surnames. This work is not meant to be scholarly
or all-inclusive. It was written to help identify women who lived during the
Tudor era and as a starting point for further research.
The information in entries often comes
from a footnote here or a paragraph there in histories and biographies, making
it impossible to give a specific source for every detail in every entry. PLEASE
NOTE: All the information I currently possess about most of the women who have
entries in the Who's Who is already contained in those
entries. If you have something to add, or a correction to make (with citations,
please!) I am happy to hear from you, but please do not expect me to know any
more than what is in the published volumes.
You can reach me by email at KathyLynnEmerson@roadrunner.com
Extras:
Master
List of Entries in A Who's Who of Tudor Women