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WELCOME TO THE HOME PAGE FOR
A WHO'S WHO OF TUDOR WOMEN
NEWS!
PRINT EDITION COMING SOON
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out-of-date collective biography, Wives and Daughters: The Women of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 have been online from 2010 until October 2020, when if first
became available as an e-book.
For the last three months I have been
editing the 2020 e-book edition of A Who's Who of Tudor Women in
preparation for issuing 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
ISBN
9781393383505
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 was 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. The revised edition only
uses the most common spelling for each person's name.
The print version is nearly ready and the
text will match the 2025 e-book edition. There will be three volumes of
approximately 500 pages each. 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 will keep the price for each as low as possible, but at
this time expect it to be at least $9.99 for each volume.
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.
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 I've published.
You can reach me by email at KathyLynnEmerson@roadrunner.com
Extras:
Master
List of Entries in A Who's Who of Tudor Women