MEMOIRS

OF THE

QUEENS OF HENRY VIII.

COMPLETE LIBRARY EDITION.

LIVES OF THE QUEENS OF ENGLAND,
FROM THE NORMAN CONQUEST:
WITH ANECDOTES OF THEIR COURTS,

NOW FIRST PUBLISHED FROM OFFICIAL RECORDS, AND OTHER AUTHENTIC
DOCUMENTS, PRIVATE AS WELL AS PUBLIC.

NEW EDITION, WITH ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS.

BY AGNES STRICKLAND.

In six handsome crown octavo volumes, containing nearly four thousand large pages. Strongly bound in extra cloth, library sheep, or half-Turkey morocco.

The publishers have great pleasure in presenting to the public this work in a complete form. During the long period in which it has been issuing from the press, it has assumed the character of a standard work, and as occupying ground hitherto untouched; as embodying numerous his torical facts heretofore unnoticed, and as containing vivid sketches of the characters and manners of the times, with anecdotes, documents, &c. &c., it presents numerous claims on the attention of both the student of history and the desultory reader.

Those who have been awaiting the completion of this work can now obtain it, forming a handsome set, twelve volumes in six, in various styles of binding.

CONTENTS OF THE VOLUMES.

VOLUME I.-Matilda of Flanders, Matilda of
Scotland, Adelicia of Louvaine, Matilda of
Boulogne, and Eleanora of Aquitaine.
VOL. II. Berengaria of Navarre, Isabella of
Angouleme, Eleanor of Provence, Eleanor of
Castile, Marguerite of France, Isabella of
France, Philippa of Hainault, and Anne of
Bohemia.

VOL. III.-Isabella of Valois, Joanna of Na-
varre, Katherine of Valois, Margaret of Anjou,
Elizabeth Woodville, and Anne of Warwick.
These three volumes make Vol. I. of the
New Edition.

VOL. IV.-Elizabeth of York, Katharine of Ara
gon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of
Cleves, and Katharine Howard.

VOL. V.-Katharine Parr and Mary the First.
These make Vol. II. of the New Edition.

It will thus be seen that this work presents an uninterrupted history of the Court of England and of the Royal Families from the Norman Conquest to the accession of the House of Hanover, naturally embracing an immense amount of singular and interesting matter, to be met with nowhere else. As an evidence that the author has done justice to the subject which she has so happily chosen, the publishers subjoin a few of the numerous commendations which the work has received from the public press.

These volumes have the fascination of a romance united to the integrity of history.-Times. Miss Strickland, through the intervention of M. Guizot, has had access to a variety of unpublished documents, deposited in the secret archives of France, and some exceedingly curious details, obviously never intended for the world, have thus been brought to light.-Court Journal. We must pronounce Miss Strickland, beyond all comparison, the most entertaining historian in the English language. She is certainly a woman of powerful and active mind, as well as of scrupulous justice and honesty of purpose. And, as we before remarked, the considerable number of new documents to which she has had access, and the curious nature of some of these docu ments, impart to her production a character of which It would be hard to determine whether the utility or the entertainment predominated.-Morning Post.

A valuable contribution to historical knowledge. It contains a mass of every kind of historical matter of interest, which industry and research could collect. We have derived much entertain ment and instruction from the work.-Athenæum.

This interesting and well-written work, in which the severe truth of history takes almost the wildness of romance, will constitute a valuable addition to our biographical literature.-Morning Herald.

Miss Strickland has made a very judicious use of many authentic MS. authorities not previously collected, and the result is a most interesting addition to our biographical library. Quarterly Review.

OF THE

QUEENS OF HENRY VIII.,

AND OF HIS MOTHER,

ELIZABETH OF YORK.

BY

AGNES STRICKLAND.

COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME.

PHILADELPHIA:

BLANCHARD AND LEA.