New Book - Little House in the Big Woods - Little House 1 - by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Pages 1 - 34)

 

First Published: January 1, 1932

I am going to start reading the books which the popular TV series Little House on the Prairie are based on.

Great Ladies: The Forgotten Witnesses to the Lives of Tudor Queens 4 - The End (Pages 148 - end)

 

When Mary became queen, she felt she had an obligation to marry. The English wanted her to marry Edward Courtenay. Edward Courtenay, 1st Earl of Devon (c. 1527 – 18 September 1556) was an English nobleman during the rule of the Tudor dynasty. Courtenay  became a favourite of his royal cousin Queen Mary, who greatly benefited the young man. Mary showed her young cousin considerable affection. Courtenay considered he might be the Queen's future husband.

Great Ladies: The Forgotten Witnesses to the Lives of Tudor Queens 3 (Pages 84 - 148)

 One of Jane Seymour's ladies-in-waiting was her sister-in-law, Anne Seymour. Anne Seymour, Duchess of Somerset (née Stanhope; before 1512 – 16 April 1587) was the second wife of Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset. 

Great Ladies: The Forgotten Witnesses to the Lives of Tudor Queens 2 (Pages 34 - 84)

 

In England Catherine of Aragon was isolated and living with limited means, so he kept asking her father for money for the dowry of her ladies-in-waiting, but Ferdinand of Aragon ignored her pleas. Catherine felt betrayed by Francesca de Cáceres when she deserted her to marry Francisco Grimaldi. Francisca de Cáceres fled in the night to marry Francesco Grimaldi without the consent of Catherine of Aragon. 

New Book - Great Ladies: The Forgotten Witnesses to the Lives of Tudor Queens by Sylvia Barbara Soberton (Pages 1 - 34)

 

First Published: February 22, 2017

The book starts telling us about Henry VII and his wife, Elizabeht of York. Elizabeth of York (11 February 1466 – 11 February 1503) was Queen of England from her marriage to King Henry VII on 18 January 1486 until she died in 1503.

Hidden - Facts

 

Myddleton Mote, the house which is where the action takes place, is in Kent. Kent is a county in southeastern England. It is bordered by Essex across the Thames Estuary to the north, the Strait of Dover to the south-east, East Sussex to the south-west, Surrey to the west, and Greater London to the north-west.

Hidden 4 - The End (Pages181 - end)

 

RATING: OKAY

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Hidden 3 (Pages124 - 181)

 

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Hidden 2 (Pages 84 - 124)

 

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New Book - Hidden by Linda Gillard (Pages 1 - 84)

 

First Published: February 6, 2020

This book is about a stately home called Myddleton Mote, and it is told from two points in time: present time and 1917/8.

Memorias de un cortesano de 1815 - Characters

 

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These are the characters in the novel:

• Juan Bragas de Pipaon is the narrator and main character. He describes how he has managed to get a good position thanks to his contacts, and in the novel he uses his trickery to get hold of some land that belonged to the Misses de Porrúa. In the previous book he was Salvador's friend and used to work for the Requejos. 
• Buenaventura is Bragas's protector.
• María Castro de Oro, Countess of Rumblar is a character that appeared in the first series and she wanted her son to marry Ines. She is very strict to her daughters, and hardly lets them go out. Her plan is for her daughter Asunción to be a nun and for her daughter Presentación to be a spinster. In a previous book, she disowned Asunción when she tried to escaped with an Englishman.
• Presentación is Doña María's other daughter. Presentación is in love with Gasparito Grijalva and asks Bragas for help as her beloved is in prison. When Bragas proves to be a traitor as he takes the lands of the MIsses Porrua, Presentación takes her revenge and humiliated him before the king.
• Diego Hipólito Féliz de Cantalicio Afán de Ribera, Count of Rumblar, is Presentación's brother. He was a key character in the first series and he wanted to marry Ines. 
• Doña Salomé de Porrúa is one of Presentación's friends.
• Doña Paz de Porrúa is also a friend of Presentación's,, and she asks Bragas for help as she wants a moratorium to pay some debts. Yet, the man uses the information to become the owner of the woman's lands.
• Gasparito Grijalva is Presentación's beloved. He is incarcirated because he said that the king had a large nose.
• Don Alfonso de Grijalva is Gasparito's father and he is the person the Misses Porrúa owe the money to. As Alfonso is upset about his son's incarceration, Bragas uses the opportunity to buy the debt that the Porruas had with the man.
• Duke of Alagon (Paquito Córdoba) is a friend of Juan's and is very close to the king.
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Memorias de un cortesano de 1815 - Facts

 

The book takes place in 1815 when Fernando VII returns to Spain. After experiencing serious setbacks on many fronts, Napoleon agreed on 11 December 1813 to acknowledge Ferdinand VII as king of Spain, and signed the Treaty of Valençay so that the king could return to Spain. The Spanish people, blaming the policies of the Francophiles for causing the Napoleonic occupation and the Peninsular War by allying Spain too closely to France, at first welcomed Fernando. Ferdinand soon found that in the intervening years a new world had been born of foreign invasion and domestic revolution. In his name, Spain fought for its independence and in his name as well juntas had governed Spanish America. Spain was no longer the absolute monarchy it had been when he had relinquished six years earlier. Instead, he was now asked to rule under the liberal Constitution of 1812. Before being allowed onto Spanish soil, Ferdinand had to guarantee the liberals that he would govern on the basis of the constitution, but he only gave lukewarm indications that he would do so. Ferdinand's restored autocracy was guided by a small camarilla of his favourites, although his government seemed unstable. Whimsical and ferocious by turns, he changed his ministers every few months. 

Memorias de un cortesano de 1815 - 2 - The End (Pages 97 - end)

 

RATING: GOOD

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