Lives of the Queens of England from the Norman Conquest

Volume 1 of this influential Victorian study contains eight biographies of medieval queens up to the fourteenth century.

Agnes Strickland (Author), Elizabeth Strickland (Author)

9781108019705, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 28 October 2010

672 pages, 15 b/w illus.
21.6 x 14 x 3.4 cm, 0.77 kg

The English writer Agnes Strickland (1796–1874) began her career writing poetry and romances before turning to biographical studies. This eight-volume series, written in collaboration with her sister Elizabeth, and first published between 1840 and 1849, was her most ambitious project. It provides accounts of the queens of England from Matilda of Flanders to Queen Anne. Hugely popular in the Victorian period, Lives of the Queens of England and its sequel Lives of the Queens of Scotland remain important landmarks in the development of biography as a genre, and provide interesting perspectives on women's contribution to modern historiography. Volume 1 contains eight biographies of medieval queens, from Matilda of Flanders (c.1031–1083) to Anne of Bohemia in the fourteenth century. For more information on these authors, see http://orlando.cambridge.org/public/svPeople?person_id=striel and http://orlando.cambridge.org/public/svPeople?person_id=striag

Preface
Introduction
1. Matilda of Flanders, queen of William the Conqueror
2. Matilda of Scotland, queen of Henry I
3. Adelicia of Louvaine, second queen of Henry I
4. Matilda of Boulogne, queen of Stephen
5. Eleanora of Aquitaine, queen of Henry II
6. Berengaria of Navarre, queen of Richard I
7. Isabella of Angouleme, queen of King John
8. Eleanor of Provence, surnamed La Belle, queen of Henry III
9. Marguerite of France, second queen of Edward I
10. Isabella of France, surnamed The Fair, queen of Edward II
11. Philippa of Hainault, queen of Edward III
12. Anne of Bohemia, surnamed The Good, first queen of Richard II.

Subject Areas: Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500 [HBLC]