Sarah Gristwood
Autore di Arbella: England's Lost Queen
Sull'Autore
Biographer and journalist Sarah Gristwood attended Oxford University and is the author of seven books, including the best-selling Arbella and Elizabeth and Leicester. She lives in London and Kent.
Opere di Sarah Gristwood
The Tudors in Love: Passion and Politics in the Age of England's Most Famous Dynasty (2022) 50 copie
God's Jury 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Gristwood, Sarah
- Data di nascita
- 1960
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Luogo di nascita
- Kent, England, UK
- Luogo di residenza
- London, England, UK
Kent, England, UK - Istruzione
- Oxford University (St. Anne's College)
- Attività lavorative
- journalist
biographer
Historian - Relazioni
- Malcolm, Derek (husband|1994|his death|2023)
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Fellow, Royal Historical Society
Fellow, Royal Society of Arts - Agente
- Araminta Whitley (Lucas Alexander Whitley)
- Breve biografia
- After leaving Oxford, Sarah Gristwood began work as a journalist, writing at first about the theatre as well as general features on everything from gun control to Giorgio Armani. But increasingly she found herself specializing in film interviews. Her work has appeared in most of the UK's leading newspapers and magazines.
Turning to history, she wrote two bestselling Tudor biographies, Arbella: England’s Lost Queen and Elizabeth and Leicester; and the 18th-century story Perdita: Royal Mistress, Writer, Romantic, which was selected as Radio 4 Book of the Week. Presenting and contributing to several radio and tv documentaries, she also published a book on iconic dresses, Fabulous Frocks (with Jane Eastoe); and a 50th anniversary companion to the film Breakfast at Tiffany’s, as well as collaborating with Tracy Borman, Alison Weir and Kate Williams on The Ring and the Crown, a book on the history of royal weddings. 2011 also saw the publication of her first historical novel, The Girl in the Mirror. In September 2012 she brought out a new nonfiction book -- Blood Sisters: The Women behind the Wars of the Roses.
She and her husband, film critic Derek Malcolm, live in London and Kent.
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Arbella Stuart was the great-granddaughter of Margaret Tudor (Henry VIII’s oldest sister). She should have been a possibility to be queen, but was bypassed. Both Elizabeth I and James I kept her at bay, and wouldn’t even allow her to marry (in the line of succession, you need permission to marry since they will likely want a politically advantageous marriage). Eventually, she just gave up and chose who she wanted to marry and married in secret (to the great-great-grandson of Mary Tudor (Henry VIII’s youngest sister)). It wasn’t long before they were found out and imprisoned.
This was nonfiction and felt a bit dense through much of it. As I tend to often mention in my reviews of historical biographies of women, even if they were royalty, there often seems to be little information on them, so much of the “action” is actually what’s taking place around them. Arbella’s marriage and attempt to escape the Tower were the most interesting part (and likely where there was the most information to use for this biography). I feel like a fictional account of her life might make things a bit more interesting.… (altro)