#katherine howard: the tragic story of henry viii's fifth queen

[fideidefenswhore]

Culpeper had intimate access to the king and was well placed to provide Katherine with information about her husband's health and his ever fluctuating moods. More importantly, Culpeper could warn her of any indication that Henry was angry [...], could listen out for any gossip about her, and report on speculation that her husband was considering repudiating her in favour of Anne of Cleves. Throughout Katherine's queenship, this topic would surface time and again, to her consternation and grief.

Katherine Howard: The Tragic Story of Henry VIII’s Fifth Queen, Josephine Wilkinson

#an interesting parallel to AB... #i wonder if those underwrote both their fears #the possibility that their predecessor could be restored and them cast off #i mean with kh. she knew that was actually possible. since he'd done it before. so.... #(not henry taking back a former wife but casting off his current for someone else...yeah?) #whereas anne knew he would always have the bond through their child and was competing with a much more significant and length shared histor #between henry and coa... #*shared history #and also had been with him in their shared project and at times living together for like. #six years prior to their marriage. so...

[edwardseymour]

Are there any good books about Catherine Howard? My library only has young, damned and fair and I wanted to puke when he was describing her “relationships” as consensual.

i would still recommend young, damned & fair. but i do disagree with russell’s conclusions regarding her sexual relationships, and i think he just generally has a grossly voyeuristic and condescending attitude regarding the subject (and women in general, NEVER forgetting his describing anne boleyn at her execution as looking “utterly feminine, utterly fragile” on the scaffold 🤮)

but his book is still, i think, a good resource. he incorporates a lot of court detail which is useful to note — he did a research paper on katherine howard’s household (which i erroneously remembered as being a phd thesis but he only has a MA so idk what i was thinking of…) and you can tell that’s an area he feels very comfortable with. as a result the book has a lot extra little details about katherine that don’t often get included or explored in other books.

my personal recommendations are:

six wives: the queens of henry viii, david starkey (he’s a racist dick but this remains, in my opinion, the best book about all six wives, and there was a time when it was the most rounded, sympathetic view of katherine. oh, how far we have come.)

katherine howard: the tragic story of henry viii’s fifth queen, josephine wilkinson (also very sympathetic account, and from a woman’s point of view. i don’t completely agree with all her conclusions. last time i read it, i read it and russell’s parallel to each other to hear both arguments, which was fun.)

catherine howard: the queen whose adulteries made a fool of henry viii, lacey baldwin-smith (it’s deeply critical of katherine, and outdated being written in the 60s, but it was the only biography on her for a while so it is interesting to see the evolution in literature about her. and if baldwin-smith disdains katherine, at least he very much disdains henry viii too.)

#katherine howard #chitchat #she doesn’t have a ‘bible’ as it were… i like making wilkinson’s and russell’s books fight by reading them together #📚

[kathrynhoward]

In matters of religion, although Katherine’s personal religious leanings are not easily discerned, there is no reason to think that she was not as good a Catholic as any other. At the very least she observed the rituals of her faith, as evinced by her collection of rosaries. She also owned several religious books, mainly mass-books. Josephine Wilkinson, Katherine Howard: The Tragic Story of Henry VIII’s Fifth Queen

#perioddramaedit #historyedit #khowardedit #kathryn howard #catherine howard #katherine howard #henry viii and his six wives #Lynne Frederick #*mine #non autre volonté que la queue #tudoredit #tudorsedit #katherine howard: the tragic story of henry viii's fifth queen

[jewelofwomanhood]

Queen Katherine Howard took her role as queen seriously. She exercised patronage, interceded on behalf of felons, fulfilled her religious obligations and was kind. She would have been as good a queen as any of Henry's wives.

Josephine Wilkinson, Katherine Howard: The Tragic Story of Henry VIII’s Fifth Queen

#katheryn howard #Katherine Howard #catherine howard #tudor history #history

[anastasianikolaevnaromanova]

“Throughout the summer progress, Katherine had presented a perfect image of queenship. Majestic, graceful and beautiful, she had carried out her royal duties impeccably. Her poise and dignity marked the progress as the highlight of her reign so far. Katherine’s past performance held the promise of a happy and successful future; in short, Katherine possessed all the qualities of a fine queen consort.

[...] Katherine Howard had barely begun to make her mark on the world stage when she was swept aside in a catastrophic series of events that are only now beginning to be fully understood. Like a butterfly, her existence was ephemeral. She lived for so short a time, yet she left an indelible trace, a memory of her that is both charming and tragic.” — Josephine Wilkinson, Katherine Howard: The Tragic Story of Henry VIII’s Fifth Queen

#historyedit #perioddramaedit #history #dailytudors #Catherine Howard #Alice Nokes #*mine #*gifs

[queenaboleyna]

Hey so I really got into learning about the Tudor period last year, unfortunately the books I've been reading were all by Alison Weir, who I just found out is not a very good source to get info from. At least I got her books for 50 cents at a yard sale. What book would you reccomend???

hello! i haven’t actually read that much tudor non fiction myself yet (i keep meaning to but have never gotten around to actually doing it), but here’s some stuff i read/started reading/have been recommended by others:

1. The Creation of Anne Boleyn: A New Look at England’s Most Notorious Queen by Susan Bordo

While this isn’t a biography on Anne Boleyn’s life or even a history book, it’s imo a very compelling read about the portrayal of Anne and her legacy in the media, and the positions people took on her over the years. It includes some interviews, too, with actresses who portrayed Anne, like Genevieve Bujold and Natalie Dormer. If you’re not particularly interested in Anne specifically this may not be for you and it doesn’t really include much information on her life, but it’s a very interesting book.

2. The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn by Eric Ives

I believe it’s considered to be one of the best biographies on Anne; I’ve only read the a bit myself and that was a while ago, but from my memory it was pretty good and well researched. I know a lot of Tudor fans on here recommend this book as a starter for research on Anne.

3. Lady Jane Grey: A Tudor Mystery by Eric Ives

Once again I’ve read very little of this myself, but I liked what I did read. It’s the same author as the previous book; I haven’t seen it recommended as much as Anne’s book, maybe because people aren’t as interested in her, but I think I was still recommended this book by another Tudor fan before I got it so I think it should be interesting.

4. Katherine Howard: The Tragic Story of Henry VIII’s Fifth Queen by Josephine Wilkinson

Like the last two cases I haven’t read much of this (rip… uni hell) but I can say I was nervous about getting a book on Catherine Howard, so I asked around for recs and people have said this is pretty good and the start that I did read seemed promising so I haven’t been disappointed yet.

5. Mary Tudor: The First Queen by Linda Porter

This was recommended to me as a good book on Mary I; unlike the other I haven’t gotten at all to starting it yet but I’ve seen a lot of Mary fans enjoy it, so if you like her too you may like this book as well.

Besides that, I’ve also read Jane Seymour: Henry VIII’s True Love by Elizabeth Norton, but I wasn’t hugely impressed by it, since there isn’t much info on Jane out there most of the book (and it was fairly short anyway) is speculative - granted, it does emphasize when it speculates, but I don’t think I gained much information from it so I’m hesistant to really recommend it lol, but I thought i should mention it since I did read it. Also by Elizabeth Norton there is The Lives on Tudor Women, which I think I’ve heard some controversial opinions on and I haven’t read it myself yet either so I wouldn’t recommend it but I’m mentioning it just in case.

Anybody else who knows good Tudor books to recommend, or give more insights to the ones I mentioned is reading this, please do feel free to add on!! :3

#ive heard that e1 doesnt really have a satisfying biography yet but there is one rlly old book ppl like on her?? dunno the name tho #ask #alaskarostova #the tudors #tudor stuff #anne boleyn #jane grey #catherine howard #mary i

[ednyfedfychan]

Katherine Howard: The Tragic Story of Henry VIII's Fifth Queen, Josephine Wilkinson

#wilkinson tag #kh tag #aoc tag #katherine howard

[isabelleneville]

@lucretiaborgia asked: Kathryn Howard or Jane Seymour

“Katherine Howard had barely begun to make her mark on the world stage when she was swept aside in a catastrophic series of events that are only now beginning to be fully understood. Like a butterfly her existence is ephemeral. She lived for so short a time, yet she left an indelible trace, a memory of her that is both charming and tragic.” - Josephine Wilkinson, Katherine Howard: The  Tragic Story of Henry VIII’s Fifth Queen

MAKE ME CHOOSE

#the tudors #thetudorsedit #perioddramaedit #Tamzin Merchant #kathryn howard #make me choose #replies #lucretiaborgia #I couldn't find a good quote online so had to open the biography I own of her; I need to purchase some more books #both jane and kathryn are pretty much next to eachother on my list of fav to least fav of H8's wives #my edits #caps #tudorscaps #dailytudors

[cosettefauchelevente]

december reading list 2021

to finish

anna karenina - leo tolstoy

katherine howard: the tragic story of henry viii's fifth queen - josephine wilkinson

odd girls and twilight lovers - lillian faderman

searching for sappho - philip freeman

to begin

hidden dublin - frank hopkins

if not winter - anne carson

sapphistries - leila j rupp

swanson on swanson - gloria swanson

to reread

jane eyre - charlotte brontë

what would audrey do? - pamela keogh

[sabeedraws]

Hi I saw in one post you said you order a KHoward biography? Care to share the name?

I’ve bought “Katherine Howard - The Tragic Story of Henry VIII’s fifth Queen” by Josephine Wilkinson, but not read it yet!

I’m gonna read “Divorced Beheaded Survived - A Feminist Reinterpretation of the Wives of Henry VIII” by Karen Lindsey first! I just started and went through the first few chapters and it’s delightful so far!! I like reading some slight speculations on what certain situations must have felt like, to feel closer to history and all, so I’m enjoying it a lot! 

#books #katherine howard #henry viii #tudor history #I've also bought fatal throne in january and will get anne boleyn ´_a countdown' soon #haha #maybe ACTUALLY READ TOO? AND NOT JUST ODER BOOKS @ me #ask #replies #Anonymous

[fideidefenswhore]

The new queen had 'completely acquired the King's grace.' So said Charles de Marillac who, both frustrated and amused by Henry's reluctance to apply himself to business, had quickly grasped that the royal bridegroom had much more entertaining matters on his mind than the affairs of kingship. Henry was keen to spend as much time possible with Katherine. A somewhat diminished Privy Council did, however, continue to meet that autumn. Much of the business had to do with raising taxes, the money to be used against the ongoing threat of war. Otherwise, foreign ambassadors, as Marillac had already found out, were often left alone to click their heels.

Katherine Howard: the Tragic Story of Henry VIII's Fifth Queen, Josephine Wilkinson

#katherine howard #josephine wilkinson

[shalebridge-cradle]

Excuse me if you already have but would you ever consider compiling a list of all the books about the six wives etc you have? I am assuming you have some

I do, but only own three at this point:

The Wives of Henry VIII by Antonia Fraser (1992)

Catherine Parr: Wife, Widow, Mother, Survivor, the Story of the Last Queen of Henry VIII by Elizabeth Norton (2010)

Anna, Duchess of Cleves : The King's 'Beloved Sister'  by Heather R. Darsie (2019)

In addition, I’ve read in their entirety:

Katherine Howard: The Tragic Story of Henry VIII’s Fifth Queen by Josephine Wilkinson (2016)

Young and Damned and Fair by Gareth Russell (2017) (also about Katherine Howard)

The Temptation of Elizabeth Tudor by Elizabeth Norton (2015) (bad title, but a reasonably thorough overview of how bad of a person Thomas Seymour was)

And partially read:

Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir (1972) (Dislike the portrayals of Katherine Howard, Jane Seymour and Elizabeth I)

Lives of the Queens of England from the Norman Conquest, Volume IV by Agnes Strickland (1847) (The source of the myth Catherine Parr acted more as Henry’s nurse than his wife)

#Anonymous #ask #support your local libraries

[kathrynhoward]

TUDOR WEEK 2021 | Day Six: Favourite Non-Fiction Media | KATHERINE HOWARD: THE TRAGIC STORY OF HENRY VIII’S FIFTH QUEEN, BY JOSEPHINE WILKINSON ft Lauren McQueen as Kathryn Howard in Six Wives With Lucy Worsley

#perioddramaedit #tudorweek2021 #historyedit #khowardedit #documentaryedit #dailytudors #katherine howard: the tragic story of henry viii's fifth queen #katherine howard #kathryn howard #catherine howard #six wives with lucy worsley #lauren mcqueen

[jewelofwomanhood]

“A replica based on contemporary sources of Katherine [Howard]’s gown of cloth of silver, which she wore as she made her entrance into Lincoln.” -- Katherine Howard: The Tragic Story of Henry VIII’s Fifth Queen by Josephine Wilkinson

#Katherine Howard #katheryn howard #catherine howard #tudor history #tudor fashion

[historicwomendaily]

Recs for Biographies On Historical Women

Women who Spied for Britain Walker Robyn and the War's Unwomanly Face by Svetlana Alexievich

A Woman In Berlin by Anonymous

The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust by Edith Hahn Beer.

Grace of Monaco by Jeffrey Robinson

The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn by Eric Ives

The First Iron Lady: A Life of Caroline of Ansbach by Matthew Dennison

Madame de Pompadour by Nancy Mitford

Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King by Antonia Fraser

Wedlock: How Georgian Britain's Worst Husband Met His Match by Wendy Moore

Jurassic Mary: Mary Anning and the Primeval Monsters by Patricia Pierce

Nell Gwynn by Charles Beauclerk

Perdita: The Literary, Theatrical and Scandalous Life of Mary Robinson by Paula Byrne

Peg Plunkett: The Memoirs of a Whore by Julie Peakman

Casanova's Women: The Great Seducer and the Women He Loved by Judith Summers

Catherine the Great by Robert K Massie

Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion by Anne Somerset

Madame du Barry: The Wages of Beauty by Joan Haslip

King's Mistress: The True and Scandalous Story of the Woman who Stole the Heart of George I by Claudia Gold

Beloved Emma: The Life of Emma, Lady Hamilton by Flora Fraser

Romantic Outlaws by Charlotte Gordon 

Doomed Queens by Kris Waldherr

Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff

The Boleyn Women by Elizabeth Norton

Catherine of Aragon: Henry’s Spanish Queen by Giles Tremlett

Mary Tudor: The First Queen by Linda Porter

Mary Tudor: The Spanish Tudor by HFM Prescott

Sister Queens: The Noble Tragic Lives of Katherine of Aragon and Juana, Queen of Castile by Julia Fox

Queenship in Medieval Europe by Theresa Earenfight

Isabel the Queen: Life and Times by Peggy K. Liss

Isabella: The Warrior Queen by Kirstin Downey

Elizabeth: The Struggle for the Throne by David Starkey

Margaret Tudor: The Life of Henry VIII’s Sister by Melanie Clegg 

Young and Damned and Fair: The Life of Catherine Howard, Fifth Wife of King Henry VIII by Gareth Russell

The Sisters Who Would Be Queen: The tragedy of Mary, Katherine and Lady Jane Grey by Leanda de Lisle

Empress of the East: How a European Slave Girl Became Queen of the Ottoman Empire  by Leslie Peirce

Daughters of the Winter Queen: Four Remarkable Sisters, the Crown of Bohemia, and the Enduring Legacy of Mary, Queen of Scots by Nancy Goldstone

Marie Antoinette: The Journey by Antonia Fraser

Victoria’s Daughters by Jerrold M. Packard

Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine who Launched Modern China by Jung Chang

Comfort Woman: Slave of Destiny by Maria Rosa Henson

Cleopatra’s Daughter: And Other Royal Women of the Augustan Era by Duane W. Roller

Cleopatra: A Biography by Michael Grant

Cleopatra: A Biography by Duane W. Roller

Cleopatra: A Sourcebook by Prudence Jones

Cleopatra and Rome by Diana E.E. Kleiner

Antony and Cleopatra by Adrian Goldsworthy

Victoria: An Intimate Biography by Stanley Weintraub

The Young Victoria by Alison Plowden

Victoria and Albert by Richard Hough

Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert Massie

#history #Mary Wollstonecraft #mary shelley #madame du berry #Madame de Pompadour #queen anne #peg plunkett #mary robinson #nell gwynn #caroline of ansbach #mary i #mary tudor #katherine of aragon #anne boleyn #joanna of castile #empress dowager cixi #margaret tudor #elizabeth i #isabella of castile #hurrem sultan #kathryn howard #jane grey #mary grey #katherine grey #Mary Queen Of Scots #marie antoinette #mary anning #alexandra feodorovna #queen victoria #cleopatra

[historystudies]

Hey I adore your blog, I was just wondering if you had any good books for one to read and maybe purchase that give a good understanding of Early Modern England/Scotland/Wales/Ireland. I'm generally more 1700s-1945 (Britain) in my research interests but really would like to expand my knowledge and library with some good early modern books. Hope you have a wonderful day! :-) ~ Evie (tea_and_cake_ on Twitter)

Hey! So my research is almost exclusively English (with some German thrown in for good measure) but this is a list of some of my favourite books that brilliantly introduce the early modern period: 

Lyndal Roper - Oedipus and the Devil: Witchcraft, Sexuality and Religion in Early Modern Europe 

Lyndal Roper - The Holy Household: Women and Morals in Reformation Augsburg

Lyndal Roper - The Witch in the Western Imagination 

Merry E. Weisner-Hanks - Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe

Patricia Crawford - Blood, Bodies and Families in Early Modern England

Sara Mendelson and Patricia Crawford - Women in Early Modern England 

Amanda Flather - Gender and Space in Early Modern England (this is brilliant)

Alan Macfarlane - Marriage and Love in England, 1300-1840

Jennifer Evans and Sara Read - Maladies and Medicine: Exploring Health and Healing, 1540-1740

Ed. Karen Raber - A Cultural History of Women in the Renaissance 

For fun:

Susan Bordo - The Creation of Anne Boleyn

Josephine Wilkinson - Katherine Howard: The Tragic Story of Henry VIII’s Fifth Queen 

Sasha Handley - Sleep in Early Modern England 

I’m mainly interested in gender history, which comes across quite strongly here haha, but hopefully some of these appeal to you. I highly recommend anything by Lyndal Roper, Patricia Crawford & Sara Read. xx 

#book recs