Happy September! Even though the summer here in Texas was pretty tolerable this year, I’m still looking forward to fall. And, if I’m being honest, I look forward to fall every year regardless of how bad the summer was!
Books
I don’t have any new books on my tracking sheet for this month, but I see quite a few new US releases of books that are already out in the UK.
First up is Heroines of the Tudor World by Sharon Bennett Connolly, which came out back in June in the UK and will be released on September 10 in the US.
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Next is The Female Tudor Scholar and Writer: The Life and Times of Margaret More Roper by Aimee Fleming, which will be out in the US on September 9.
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Susan Doran’s From Tudor to Stuart: The Regime Change from Elizabeth I to James I that came out earlier in the year in the UK and will be out on September 24 in the US.
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Next up, out at the end of the month in the US – Henry VIII and the Plantagenet Poles by Adam Pennington.
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And finally, Helene Harrison’s Tudor Executions: From Nobility to the Block will be out on September 9 in the US.
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Continuing Exhibits – Ending Soon!
The National Portrait Gallery’s exhibition, Six Lives: The Stories of Henry VIII’s Queens opened on June 20 and runs through September 8. Click through for more information on the many related events the gallery will be hosting!
About the exhibition:
Tudor paintings by Hans Holbein the Younger and contemporary photography by Hiroshi Sugimoto meet in the National Portrait Gallery’s first exhibition of historic portraiture since reopening, presenting a study of the lives and afterlives of the six women who married Henry VIII.
Six Lives will chronicle the representation of Katherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Katherine Howard and Katherine Parr throughout history and popular culture in the centuries since they lived. As a frequent source of fascination, the stories of the six women has repeatedly inspired writers and artists of all kinds to attempt to uncover the ‘truth’ of their lives: their characters, their appearance and their relationships. From historic paintings, drawings and ephemera, to contemporary photography, costume and film, the exhibition draws upon a wealth of factual and fictional materials to present the life, legacy and portrayal of six women who forever changed the landscape of English history.