Bloody Mary.: Carolly Erickson. Quill/W. Morrow, - Great Britain - pages. 3 Reviews. A rich biography of Bloody Mary that exposes other themes in Mary Tudor's reign. Bearing extraordinary burdens, Mary ruled with full measure of the Tudor majesty and met the challenges of severe economic crises, rebellion, and religious upheaval 4/5(3). · Erickson was certainly one of the earliest historians who tried to rehabilitate the reputation of Mary Tudor. She gives great insight into Mary’s personality, courage and fortitude. Mary had to navigate a very narrow path between being the first Queen Regnant and being a wife who was obliged to obey and relegate herself to her husband’s commands as all women were required to do during this era. · Bloody Mary: The Life of Mary Tudor. Mary Tudor has no monument in England. Her death was a national holiday for years. But, in this biography, Carolly Erickson tells of how she survived an agonizing adolescence and how after winning the 4/5.
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Mary started as a delicate little girl who overcame many hurdles and became Ruler of England. Carolly Erickson brilliantly illustrates Mary’s life in Bloody Mary. The life of Mary, daughter to King Henry and Katherine of Argon, was filled with backstabbing, power hungry people and danger around every corner. The major merit of this book -- and that merit is considerable -- is that Erickson provides a sympathetic portrait of a monarch who is usually dismissed as a Papist monster or an irrelevant prelude to the great Elizabeth I. Erickson does not pretend that Mary was a particularly competent, effective, or even ethical monarch, but she gives insight into how Mary's upbringing and her experiences as a woman of her times shaped the kinds of mistakes she made as Queen. The history of Mary Tudor is an improbable blend of triumph, humiliation, heartbreak, and devotion-and Ms. Erickson recounts it all against the turbulent background of European politics, war, and religious strife of the mids.
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