The Red Queen

by Ruth S. Perot


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$11.95
Softcover
$11.95

Book Details

Language : English
Publication Date : 4/29/2000

Format : Softcover
Dimensions : 5x8
Page Count : 296
ISBN : 9781587212338

About the Book

This novel, The Red Queen, covers England's War of the Roses, 1444-1475. Fascinating characters abound in that period. There are, in addition to Margaret, who was married at age 14:

Henry VI, her husband, who was 'fitter for a cowl than a crown.'

Cardinal Beaufort, who pushed the marriage.

The Duke of Gloucester, who opposed it.

Warwick the Kingmaker, Margaret's greatest enemy.

The Yorkists and Lancastrians who tore England apart.

Margaret was a strong woman more suited to our own times than her own. Overlooked, it is time she is reintroduced as a heroine for today's readers.


About the Author

Mrs. Perot graduated from Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, with a major in English literature. She earned an M.A. from the State University of New York at Buffalo where her thesis was on Shakespeare's History Plays. Her research showed that Shakespeare had misrepresented Margaret of Anjou.

This sparked her lifelong interest in the Queen that carried on throughout a career of commercial writing and her business in out-of-print books. This interest has culminated in a highly accurate and sensitive novel.

The author now lives in Fairhope, Alabama, with her cat, Sally.