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Fascinating nonfiction about the lives of Duchess Jacquetta, Elizabeth Woodville, and Margaret Beauford. Each of these women, Philippa Gregory has written novels about: The Rivers Women, the White Queen, and the Red Queen, respectively.

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🍎🍎🍎Non fiction about Elizabeth Woodville, Margaret Beaufort, & Jacquetta, Lady Rivers by Philippa Gregory
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Day 5.

Prompt: book you‘d take with you whilst questing

This one is short and should be informative (I haven‘t actually read it yet…).

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As mentioned in the (quite interesting) introduction, it‘s hard to find information about historical women. Because of that, it‘s hard to write an interesting biography. For all three (but especially Jacquetta), there was more about the war and what the men were doing and the big events than about the women themselves, and I‘m not as interested in the wars, the fighting, and the politics. So, I tended to skim over those parts.

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Books on your wishlist.

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Backlist Wishlist

Since the list is so long I‘ve tag my number 1 book. And the following 3 books, also by Philippa Gregory, can be found on the list too.....

1. Dark Tracks (Order of Darkness, no. 4)
2. A Respectable Trade
3. Fallen Skies

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Interesting. I had read the first three books in the Plantagenent series, and wanted to get a more indepth view before continuing on. Most of what was addressed was included somehow in the previous books. It was interesting to learn kust how little information is easily available for the research, and to what lengths Gregory went to piece the story together for her books. Solidifies why I enjoy her so much as an author.

5 AM on a Saturday, sure, I'll read!