by Jean Plaidy · Arrow · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099493327
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«Mary, Queen of France» is the historical novel by Jean Plaidy, published by Arrow in paperback (368 pages, in English).
It tells the story of Mary Tudor, younger sister of Henry VIII, famous for her beauty and rebellious nature. Turned into a political pawn, she is sent to France to marry the elderly King Louis XII, far from Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, the man she loves. Mary then decides to defy her brother and fight for her own happiness.
It belongs to the Tudor Saga series, of which it is the ninth instalment; the work was originally published in 1964.
Recommended for readers of historical and romantic fiction, especially followers of Philippa Gregory and the Tudor period.
Eleanor Alice Hibbert was an English writer of historical romances. She was a prolific writer who published several books a year in different literary genres, each genre under a different pen name: Jean Plaidy for fictionalized history of European royalty and the three volumes of her history of the Spanish Inquisition, Victoria Holt for gothic romances, and Philippa Carr for a multi-generational family saga. She also wrote light romances, crime novels, murder mysteries and thrillers under pseudonyms Eleanor Burford, Elbur Ford, Kathleen Kellow, Anna Percival, and Ellalice Tate.
