Carolly Erickson
The Unfaithful Queen
Henry VIII’s fifth wife, Catherine Howard, tells her story in this whimsical reimagining, beginning with her early adolescence in the…
The Favored Queen
In this novel, the latest of her self-described “historical entertainments,” Erickson tells the story of Jane Seymour, the third wife…
Rival to the Queen
Not since Victoria Holt’s My Enemy the Queen (1978) have I encountered another novel about the complex rivalry between Queen…
The Memoirs of Mary Queen of Scots
Historian and novelist Carolly Erickson takes another foray into fiction and delivers a sweeping tale spanning the life of Mary…
The Tsarina’s Daughter
Erickson calls this retelling of the fall of the Romanov family an “historical entertainment”—more like alternative history in many respects,…
The Secret Life of Josephine
Lovely Rose of Martinique is sent to pre-revolutionary France to marry Viscount Alexandre de Beauharnais, but her arrogant new husband…
The Last Wife Of Henry VIII
Erickson is well known to lovers of royal non-fiction. Only with her previous novel, The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette,…
Royal Panoply : Brief Lives of the English Monarchs
Somehow Erickson manages, in the space she permits herself, to give us vignettes about 40 English monarchs from William…
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