6/24/2023 0 Comments Blood sisters sarah![]() ![]() Partly because she has in some ways left a more visisble legacy of works and images. Probably Margaret of Burgundy (Margaret of York) – sister to Edward IV and Richard III. Which woman did you enjoy writing about the most? And maybe, just maybe, some of these women were doing things that didn’t sit very easily with the men who have mostly written their histories. In fact, of course, we tend not to have, from this period the kind of letters that give an aristocratic woman’s feelings, or a man’s either – the Paston letters being the great exception that proves the rule. Largely because of that lack of evidence, about some crucial aspects of and episodes in their lives. You write that ‘these women should be a legend, a byword.’ (p.8) Why do you think they are less well known than their Tudor counterparts? ![]() But by putting them together, and showing how their lives echoed and interrelated with each other’s, it’s possible to give a more rounded picture. Their individual stories are so exceptionally dramatic, and so patchily documented, that they can provoke almost a kind of incredulity. I think – hope! – that by linking them together it gives some sort of context. ![]() ![]() What does your book add to previous works covering these women? ![]()
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