Amy Licence
Autor/a de In Bed with The Tudors: From Elizabeth of York to Elizabeth I
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Obres de Amy Licence
Living in Squares, Loving in Triangles: The Lives and Loves of Virginia Woolf & the Bloomsbury Group (2015) 39 exemplars
Living Like a Tudor: Woodsmoke and Sage: A Sensory Journey Through Tudor England (2021) 38 exemplars
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- Gènere
- female
- Nacionalitat
- UK
- Llocs de residència
- Canterbury, Kent, England, UK
- Professions
- historian
- Biografia breu
- Amy Licence is an historian of women's lives in the medieval and early modern period, from Queens to commoners. Her particular interest lies in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century, in gender relations, Queenship and identity, rites of passage, pilgrimage, female orthodoxy and rebellion, superstition, magic, fertility and childbirth.
Amy has written for The Guardian, the BBC Website, The English Review, The London Magazine, The Times Literary Supplement and is a regular contributor to the New Statesman and The Huffington Post. She has been interviewed for BBC 5 Live and Irish Newstalk radio and made her TV debut in 2013, in a BBC documentary on The White Queen. You can follow Amy on twitter @PrufrocksPeach or like her facebook page In Bed With the Tudors. She also has a personal blog authorherstorianparent.blogspot.com
Amy lives in the medieval city of Canterbury, England with her husband and two sons. [from Amazon.com Author page, retrieved 8/11/2014]
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- Obres
- 29
- Membres
- 616
- Popularitat
- #40,815
- Valoració
- 3.6
- Ressenyes
- 12
- ISBN
- 54
One problem is that the writer tends to use people's names without making it clear which particular Catherine/Elizabeth etc she means and given the propensity for the same first names to be used in families of the time it is occasionally unclear as to who she is talking about. While reading it I was also struck by the high incidence of type setting mistakes - lots of missed words and mis-spellings - to an extent surprising in a book from a mainstream publisher. It was quite distracting.
The book was particularly disappointing in the final chapters about Anne's downfall. That part was rushed over in a surprisingly skimpy manner which contrasted to the detail in earlier sections, e.g. about Henry's and Anne's progresses around England; the places they stayed at and the people who hosted them etc.
Since reading the book I've looked at some reviews which have pointed out that there are loads of historical mistakes which completely undermines the reliance I can base on its factual content except where I can recall them from previous biographies. So all in all I found it a bit disappointing and can only award an OK 2 stars.… (més)