I just recently heard about this forthcoming book during the podcast talk by Alison Weir at the British Library. I haven’t found any information on whether there will be a US edition, but I’m going to send a few emails and see if I can find out.
Update: I emailed Ms. Borman and she said that a US edition is due in September of 2010! I’ll post a reminder about it when we get closer to that date.
From author Tracy Borman’s website:
Tracy’s next book, Elizabeth’s Women: The Hidden Story of the Virgin Queen, will be published by Jonathan Cape on 24th September 2009. It will explore all of the most important women in Elizabeth’s life: from her bewitching mother, Anne Boleyn, to her dangerously obsessive sister, Mary Tudor, and from the rivals to her throne such as Mary, Queen of Scots and the sisters of Lady Jane Grey, to the ‘flouting wenches’ like Lettice Knollys who stole her closest male favourite. These were the women who shaped the Virgin Queen and it is through their eyes that the real Elizabeth, stripped of her carefully cultivated image, is revealed.
And here’s my Amazon.uk affiliate link if you want to pre-order and throw a few pence my way. 🙂
This sounds a bit like Rosalind Marshall’s “Queen Mary’s Women: Female Friends, Family, Servants and Enemies of Mary Queen of Scots” which is a series of short articles of women Mary QoS knew. Hmmm…..
Why do the publishing companies have to torture us in the US with long waits? *cries* This book seems like it will be interesting too! I hate living in the US when it comes to books like this!
I have never heard of this book but would like to own.I think that this book will be interesting.A book on Elizabeth’s women.A book all about her maids,distant relatives,Ladies in waiting,Friends and Foes.
I have bought several recent British releases from the Book Depository for affordable prices. They have free shipping to the US and I haven’t encountered any problems so far – but wait until the books are actually published to order them. They charge at time of purchase – not at time of shipping like Amazon.
As an Elizabethan historian, I am curious to understand why Borman chose to framework Elizabeth’s life in such a way. While it may prove to be an interesting theory, it won’t be one to which I adhere.