Great Harry: A Biography of Henry VIII

Carolly Erickson

St. Martin's Publishing Group, Apr 1, 2007 - Biography & Autobiography - 432 pages

St. Martin's Griffin is proud to reissue acclaimed biographer Carolly Erickson's lives of the Tudor monarchs.

In this full-scale popular biography of Henry VIII, Carolly Erickson re-creates the extravagant life and times of one of history's most complex and fascinating men.

Based on voluminous records of the period, the story of Henry's life covers his troubled youth, his triumphant early reign, and his agonizing old age.

Against the lively backdrop of the Tudor world, with all its splendors and squalors, Carolly Erickson gives us an unforgettable and human portrait of Henry VIII.

Contents

• PREFACE TO THE 1997 EDITION: 9
• PREFACE: 13
• Young Harry: 19
• Great Harry: 69
• The Man Most Full of Heart: 129
• Dieu et Mon Droit: 177
• The Mouldwarp: 247
• Old Harry: 315
• NOTES: 373
• SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY: 399
• INDEX: 413
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS OF COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL: 429

About the author

Distinguished historian Carolly Erickson is the author of Rival to the Queen, The Memoirs of Mary Queen of Scots, The First Elizabeth, The Hidden Life of Josephine, The Last Wife of Henry VIII, and many other prize-winning works of fiction and nonfiction. Her novel The Tsarina's Daughter won the Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Award for Best Historical Fiction. She lives in Hawaii.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Great Harry: A Biography of Henry VIII
• Author: Carolly Erickson
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2007
• ISBN: 1429903988, 9781429903981
• Length: 432 pages
• Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Historical; Biography & Autobiography / Royalty; History / Europe / Great Britain / Tudor & Elizabethan Era (1485-1603)