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Posted on August 31, 2020 by Ann Foster

Lady Jane Grey: How To Lose A Queen In Nine Days

The short, weird life of England's first solo female monarch.

Posted on August 30, 2017March 28, 2018 by Ann Foster

Mary Shelley’s Lasting Feminist Legacy And Influence

How a runaway teen pregnant with her married lover's child revolutionized the publishing industry.

Posted on July 20, 2017June 15, 2019 by Ann Foster

Katherine of Aragon: Part One: The Spanish Princess Bride

Looking at the little discussed early years of Katherine of Aragon, the Spanish princess who was more than just the woman eventually discarded by her husband.

Posted on July 11, 2017March 28, 2018 by Ann Foster

Marguerite de Valois: the indomitable French Princess who became a Queen of two countries

Fiction writers need to embellish very little to turn Marguerite's life into a highly dramatic narrative. This woman truly lived her best life.

Posted on June 13, 2017January 27, 2020 by Ann Foster

Catherine de’Medici: orphan, captive, wife, Queen, mother, politician, survivor

The story of a woman who single-handedly kept France afloat during a time of constant Civil War. And she also sort of invented ballet!

Posted on May 16, 2017July 17, 2018 by Ann Foster

Remembering Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova, a girl who became famous for an afterlife that wasn’t her own

Anastasia is maybe the only person in history better known for what she didn't do than for what she did. But the girl she was deserves to be remembered too.

Posted on May 9, 2017April 2, 2018 by Ann Foster

Jeanne de la Motte: the 18th century con woman who destroyed Marie Antoinette and brought about the French Revolution

Jeanne de la Motte was a badass con woman whose scheming basically made the French Revolution happen. Also? Her true story has more plot twists than a lot of fiction.

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