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The queen's governess / Karen Harper.

Summary:

Katherine Ashley, the daughter of a poor country squire, happily secures an education and a place for herself in the Tudor court of Henry VIII. As a dying favor to the doomed Anne Boleyn, Kat becomes governess and surrogate-mother to the young Elizabeth Tudor ... ultimately emerging as the lifelong confidante to Queen Elizabeth I.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0451232062
  • ISBN: 9780451232069
  • Physical Description: 376 pages ; 21 cm
  • Publisher: New York : New American Library, 2011.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Includes a reading group guide with discussion questions and a conversation with the author (p. [359]-[368]) and an excerpt from Harper's Mistress of mourning (p. [369]-376).
Subject: Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603 > Fiction.
Astley, Katherine, -1565 > Fiction.
Governesses > England > Fiction.
Great Britain > History > Henry VIII, 1509-1547 > Fiction.
Genre: Biographical fiction.
Fiction.
Historical fiction.

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