The Women of the Cousins' War

Resumen del libro

Elizabeth Woodville, The White Queen (2009), Margaret Beaufort, The Red Queen (2010), and Jacquetta, Lady Rivers, The Rivers Woman (2011) are the subjects of the first three novels in Philippa Gregory's Cousins' War series, and of the three biographical essays in this book. Philippa Gregory and two historians, leading experts in their field who helped Philippa to research the novels, tell the extraordinary 'true' stories of the life of these women who until now have been largely forgotten by history, their background and times, highlighting questions which are raised in the fiction and illuminating the novels.

Biografía del autor

Philippa Gregory es una escritora de reconocido prestigio internacional. Doctorada en literatura del s. XVIII por la Universidad de Edimburgo, se ha ganado el aplauso de la crítica y del público. Es conocida por su precisión histórica, la meticulosidad de sus investigaciones y por la genialidad con la que mezcla detalles históricos reales, historias de amor, aventuras y vida de corte.