A folyók asszonya

by Philippa Gregory

Overview

Egy szenvedéllyel és legendákkal átszőtt történet Bedford hercegnéjéről, aki még az árulástól sem riadt vissza, hogy a Rózsák háborújában megnyerje a saját csatáját.Miután Bedford hercege, Franciaország angol régense, John Lancaster feleségül veszi Jacquettát, bevezeti őt a tudomány és az alkímia rejtelmes világába. A népes udvarban az ifjú asszonynak csupán egyetlen barátja akad: a herceg pajzshordozója, Richard Woodville, aki akkor is a támasza lesz, mikor a hercegné váratlanul megözvegyül. Egymásba szeretnek, majd titokban összeházasodnak és VI. Henrik király udvarába költöznek, ahol az új királyné bizalmas barátnőjévé fogadja Jacquettát.Woodville-ék hamarosan a Lancaster-udvar életének központi szereplőivé válnak, bár Jacquetta közben érzi: Anglia népe elégedetlen, és riválisaik, a Yorkok egyre komolyabb fenyegetést jelentenek a királyi család számára.Miközben az asszony elszántan harcol a király és a királyné oldalán, ráébred, hogy lányára, Elizabethre ragyogó jövő várhat: egy váratlan fordulat következtében lehetősége nyílik megszerezni számára Anglia trónját és York fehér rózsáját...

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789633102947
Publisher:	Libri Kiadó
Publication date:	11/21/2013
Series:	A folyók asszonya
Sold by:	PUBLISHDRIVE KFT
Format:	eBook
File size:	983 KB
Language:	Hungarian

About the Author

Philippa Gregory, author of the bestselling Wideacre trilogy and other celebrated historical novels, holds a B.A. in history and a Ph.D. in 18th-century literature. In her youth, however, the meticulous writer-researcher almost skipped going to university (she was, as she put it, "a bit of a rebel at school"). When she finally did enroll at Sussex University, she took a course taught by the historian Maurice Hutt, and the rest is -- what else? -- history.

"It was such a powerful experience that, really, it transformed my life," she explained in an interview with The Guardian. "I was looking for something that would explain everything -- I was that kind of earnest young woman! -- and history seemed to be able to do that."

Gregory earned her degree from Sussex, then traveled to Edinburgh to research 18th-century popular novels. The research spawned both a Ph.D. thesis and Gregory's first novel, Wideacre, which was a New York Times bestseller. It came, Gregory pointed out in a Barnes and Noble interview, "at a time when people wanted a new sort of historical fiction: more realistic, more radical, more sexy, and harder edged. That's how I see the world, so I never wrote for a market, I always wrote to reflect my own view of the period, and it has been phenomenally successful."

After extending Wideacre into a trilogy, Gregory continued to write fiction, delving into 16th-century witchcraft , 17th-century political turmoil, and 18th-century slave trading, as well as exploring contemporary life.

But while Gregory -- in her own view and in the views of many critics -- continued to improve as a writer, none of her books matched the popular success of Wideacre until she wrote The Other Boleyn Girl, a provocative tale of sexual politics in the court of Henry VIII, and The Queen's Fool, the story of a 14-year-old Jewish girl brought to the court of Queen Mary. Both novels became bestsellers and widely acclaimed storytelling tour de forces.

Gregory continues to mine the territory of Tudor England for stories -- and she continues with her historical research, building up an ever more dazzling, daring and complete picture of the period. "Accuracy is very important to me because I have a total commitment to history," Gregory told The Guardian. "It answered my deepest questions, of which, I suppose, the most profound is: `Why am I here?' Understanding your history can tell you that. It's how I understand who I am and where I came from. I would never lie to anyone about history."

Hometown:

Yorkshire, England

Date of Birth:

January 9, 1954

Place of Birth:

Nairobi, Kenya, East Africa

Education:

B.A. in history, Sussex University, 1982; Ph.D., 18th-century popular fiction, Edinburgh, 1984

Website:

http://www.PhilippaGregory.com