First Published: March 3, 2014
The book starts with aletter from Elizabeth Pringle to Anna Morrison.
Thoughts and notes about the books I am reading. My entries are not book reviews but just my personal thoughts and opinions about what I'm reading at the moment. The entries obviously contain SPOILERS.
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.
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.
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.
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.