@article{436465,
      recid = {436465},
      author = {Castor, Helen.},
      title = {She-wolves : the women who ruled England before Elizabeth  /},
      publisher = {HarperCollins,},
      address = {New York :},
      pages = {xv, 480 p. :},
      year = {2011},
      abstract = {When Edward VI died in 1553, the extraordinary fact was  that there was no one left to claim the title of king of  England. For the first time, England would have a reigning  queen, but the question was which one: Katherine of  Aragon's daughter, Mary; Anne Boleyn's daughter, Elizabeth;  or one of their cousins, Lady Jane Grey or Mary, Queen of  Scots. But female rule in England also had a past. Four  hundred years before Edward's death, Matilda, daughter of  Henry I and granddaughter of William the Conqueror, came  tantalizingly close to securing the crown for herself. And  between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries three more  exceptional women -- Eleanor of Aquitaine, Isabella of  France, and Margaret of Anjou -- discovered how much was  possible if presumptions of male rule were not confronted  so explicitly, and just how quickly they might be vilified  as "she-wolves" for their pains. The stories of these  women, told here in all their vivid detail, expose the  paradox that female heirs to the Tudor throne had no choice  but to negotiate. Man was the head of woman, and the king  was the head of all. How, then, could royal power lie in  female hands?-- From publisher description.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/436465},
}