King Henry VIII

In the following year, 1952, and under the same pseudonym, JP shifted her historical lens for the novel Daughter of Satan, which examines the persecution of witches and Puritans in the 16th and 17th...

Catherine had been replaced in the affections and the dynastic ambitions of Henry VIII by Anne Boleyn, subject of NL 's 1963 historical novel.

The two or three that followed included The Armourer's House, set in the reign of Henry VIII , 1951, and Brother Dusty-Feet, 1952, in which a boy and his dog run away to...

Princess Elizabeth (later QEI ) sent her father a New Year's gift: her translation of Katherine Parr 's Prayers or Meditacions into three languages: Latin, French and Italian.

RH decided to write her family story when she read in Holinshed a mention of her father's exploit in the quarrel between Henry VIII and the Pope , and thought her children would appreciate knowing...

The play is a Senecan tragedy, written for the closet, not the public stage, though it is worth remembering that upper-class circles reading or performing such plays were connoisseurs of the highly dramatised masque...

Following chapters Of Hell, and Judgment and Of the Soul, and Temptation, she laments a growth in sectarianism and decline in good works. In Of the Romish Religion, she criticizes Catholic beliefs and...

RH situates her own story within that of her family, and sets the family story in the context of the clash between the reformed and traditional systems of Christianity. She opens with Of My Father...