Book Reviews Archives - History of Royal Women

Book Review: The Making of Juana of Austria: Gender, Art, and Patronage in Early Modern Iberia edited by Noelia García Pérez

Wednesday, 18 September 2024, 6:00 Moniek Bloks 0

*review copy* *contains affiliate links* Juana, or Joanna of Austria, was the daughter of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and Isabella of Portugal. Born in 1535 as their youngest surviving child, she went on to marry her double first cousin, the 14-year-old John Manuel, Prince of Portugal, when she was 16 years old. She was [read more]

Book Review: Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power by Leah Redmond Chang

Saturday, 10 August 2024, 6:00 Moniek Bloks 0

*review copy* *contains affiliate links* Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power by Leah Redmond Chang follows the stories of Catherine de’ Medici, her daughter Elisabeth, Queen of Spain, and her daughter-in-law, Mary, Queen of Scots. Particularly Mary, Queen of Scots, has been covered extensively by historians, so I was glad to [read more]

Book Review: Six Lives: The Stories of Henry VIII’s Queens

Thursday, 1 August 2024, 6:00 Moniek Bloks 0

*contains affiliate links* The lives of the six Queens of King Henry VIII of England have continued to fascinate us over 500 years later. The National Portrait Gallery is running an exhibition called “Six Lives. The Stories of Henry VIII’s Queens”, and this wonderful hardcover book accompanies it. So, even if you can’t make it [read more]

Book News Week 28

Sunday, 7 July 2024, 0:00 Moniek Bloks 0

*contains affiliate links* Book News Week 28 – 8 July – 14 July 2024 Queens in Antiquity and the Present: Speculative Visions and Critical Histories Hardcover – 11 July 2024 (UK) The Succession Debate and Contested Authority in Elizabethan England, 1558-1603 (Queenship and Power) Hardcover – 13 July 2024 (US)

Book Review: Informally Royal: Studio Lisa and the Royal Family 1936-1966 by Rodney Laredo

Thursday, 13 June 2024, 6:00 Moniek Bloks 0

*review copy* *contains affiliate links* Informally Royal: Studio Lisa and the Royal Family 1936-1966 is about the photo studio “Studio Lisa”, run by Lisa and Jimmy Sheridan, who ended up taking many photographs of the royal family. They were hired by the then Duke and Duchess of York to take photos of their family. They [read more]

Book Review: Island Queens and Mission Wives: How Gender and Empire Remade Hawai‘i’s Pacific World by Jennifer Thigpen

Saturday, 11 May 2024, 6:00 Moniek Bloks 0

*review copy* *contains affiliate links* Island Queens and Mission Wives: How Gender and Empire Remade Hawai’i’s Pacific World is a book that focuses on the relationship between Hawaiian royalty and the mission wives who arrived in Hawaii to bring Christianity. The Hawaiian queens are immensely fascinating, and this book had the opportunity to be so [read more]