She-wolves: The Women who Ruled England Before Elizabeth

Helen Castor

Faber & Faber, 2011 - Biography & Autobiography - 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?

About the author

Helen Castor is a medieval historian and a Bye-Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. Her book, Blood & Roses, a biography of the fifteenth-century Paston family, was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize in 2005 and won the English Association's Beatrice White Prize in 2006. Her second, She-Wolves, was made into a major BBC TV series. Joan of Arc: A History is her latest published book. She lives in London with her husband and son.

Bibliographic information

• Title: She-wolves: The Women who Ruled England Before Elizabeth
• Author: Helen Castor
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Faber & Faber, 2011
• ISBN: 0571237061, 9780571237067
• Length: 474 pages
• Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Historical; Biography & Autobiography / Royalty; Biography & Autobiography / Women; History / Europe / Great Britain / General; History / Europe / Great Britain / Norman Conquest to Late Medieval (1066-1485); History / Europe / Medieval; History / Modern / 16th Century