Helen Castor (Author of She-Wolves)

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Helen Castor

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Helen Castor is a historian of medieval England and a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. She directed studies in History at Sidney for eight years before deciding to concentrate on writing history for a wider readership.

Her book Blood & Roses (Faber, 2004, published in revised form in the US by HarperCollins, 2006) is a biography of the fifteenth-century Paston family, whose letters are the earliest great collection of private correspondence surviving in the English language. Blood & Roses was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction in 2005, and was awarded the Beatrice White Prize (for outstandingly scholarly work in the field of English Literature before 1590) by the English Association in 2006.

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Average rating: 4.01 · 12,426 ratings · 1,290 reviews · 7 distinct works 鈥� Similar authors

	She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth 4.04 avg rating — 8,347 ratings — published 2010 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Joan of Arc: A History 3.75 avg rating — 2,245 ratings — published 2014 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Eagle and the Hart: The Tragedy of Richard II and Henry IV 4.39 avg rating — 660 ratings — published 2024 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blood & Roses: The Paston Family and the Wars of the Roses 3.94 avg rating — 683 ratings — published 2004 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Close Quarters by William Golding, Helen Castor (Introduction) 3.80 avg rating — 698 ratings — published 1987 — 55 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Elizabeth I: A Study in Insecurity 4.23 avg rating — 478 ratings — published 2018 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The King, the Crown, and the Duchy of Lancaster: Public Authority and Private Power, 1399-1461 3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2000 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Amid the chaos and confusion, one thing alone was certain: for the first time, a woman would sit upon the throne of England.”
― Helen Castor, She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth

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“. . . she at once put on an extremely arrogant demeanour instead of the modest gait and bearing proper to the gentle sex,鈥� the Gesta鈥檚 author complained, 鈥渂egan to walk and speak and do all things more stiffly and more haughtily than she had been wont, to such a point that soon, in the capital of the land subject to her, she actually made herself queen of all England and gloried in being so called.”
― Helen Castor, She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth

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“If she had truly been sent by God, she would not wear men鈥檚 clothes in contravention of God鈥檚 law and the Church鈥檚 teaching. The nature of her supposed mission was no excuse for this abomination, since no 鈥榞reater鈥� good could ever justify sin 鈥� and in any case women were forbidden to fight, just as they were forbidden to preach, to teach, to administer the sacraments, and all other duties that belonged to men.”
― Helen Castor, Joan of Arc: Excitingly retold by one of our finest historians, this is the story of Joan of Arc as you have never read it before.

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September is non-fiction (open category) month. This is the fifth of our advance polls through September (check your messages...I sent out a broadcast about this to all members). Voting is open until April 15th.

She-Wolves

Helen Castor

3 votes, 50.0%

The Professor and the Madman

Simon Winchester

1 vote, 16.7%

Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

1 vote, 16.7%

Mayflower

Nathaniel Philbrick

1 vote, 16.7%

Meditations

Marcus Aurelius

0 votes, 0.0%

Mythology

Edith Hamilton

0 votes, 0.0%

6 total votes

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