- Published: 7 November 2013
- ISBN: 9781448191383
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 576
Elizabeth of York
The First Tudor Queen
- Published: 7 November 2013
- ISBN: 9781448191383
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 576
The compelling drama of Elizabeth’s life, the traumatic perils she faced as a young woman, the murder of her brothers by Richard III and the later mystery of Perkin Warbeck, are richly presented.
Iain Finlayson, The Times
Weir has a shrewd sense of what will seize the imagination of the keen historical amateur.
The Independent
A meticulous scholar... Weir sincerely admires her subject, doing honor to an almost forgotten queen
New York Times
Weir adheres to the conventional story without giving much weight to new theories, preferring instead to stick with the facts about daily life for a Plantagenet princess-turned-Tudor queen.
Lesley McDowell, Herald
[Weir] has a good eye for period detail – and her re-creation of the late 15th century domestic and ceremonial world is terrific.
Dan Jones, Sunday Times
The great asset of this book is the combination of the political and the personal… Weir is a fine writer with a wonderful gift for description.
Linda Porter, Literary Review
A new perspective…underpinned by the same careful delineation between facts and speculation observed in her biographies.
Independent (Web)
Weir builds an intriguing picture of this queen, placing her in the magnificent but often brutal world she inhabited.
Lancashire Evening Post
Alison Weir’s comprehensive, compelling and very readable portrait of Elizabeth reveals not just her life and times but the woman behind the myth.
Morecambe Bay Visitor
Once again, [Weir] perfectly combines the dramatic colour and timing of an historical novelist with the truth to fact of a scrupulous historian.
Iain Finlayson, The Times
This biography of Edward IV’s daughter neatly bridges Alison Weir’s previous books on the Plantagenets and Tudors… Behind the book’s easy style there is some serious scholarship.
Stephen Coulson, Lady
Weir’s sympathetic and detailed biography reassesses the life of a woman whose role in public life…has been underrated by historians
Mail on Sunday