Further Reading About the Woodvilles and the Wars of the Roses


    

These are some sources I've found useful for the Woodville family in particular and the Wars of the Roses in general:


David Baldwin, Elizabeth Woodville: Mother of the Princes in the Tower. Gloucestershire: Sutton, 2004 (paperback edition).

Mary Clive, This Son of York: A Biography of Edward IV. New York: Knopf, 1974.

Anne Crawford, ed., Letters of the Queens of England, 11001547. Gloucestershire: Sutton, 2002 (paperback edition.

Anne Crawford, The Yorkists: The History of a Dynasty. London and New York: Hambledon, 2007.

John Gillingham, The Wars of the Roses. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1981.

Paul Murray Kendall, Richard the Third. New York: Norton, 1983 (reprint). Entertaining reading, but biased against the Woodvilles to the point of losing all scholarly objectivity and in many places fanciful to the point of being fictional, as when Kendall describes (without any supporting evidence) Elizabeth Woodville's supposedly disdainful attitude toward the young Richard. Best read as a supplement to Ross or Pollard.

J. R. Lander, Crown and Nobility 14501509. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1976.

J. L. Laynesmith, The Last Medieval Queens. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005 (paperback edition).

David MacGibbon, Elizabeth Woodville (14371492): Her Life and Times. London: Arthur Barker, 1933.  Still of some use, though MacGibbon accepts as fact some episodes that have since been discredited.

A. R. Myers, “The Household of Queen Elizabeth Woodville, 14667.” Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, 196768.

Arlene Okerlund, Elizabeth: England’s Slandered Queen. Gloucestershire: Tempus, 2006 (paperback edition).

A. J. Pollard, Richard III and the Princes in the Tower. Gloucestershire: Sutton, 2002 (paperback reprint).

Charles Ross, Edward IV. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997.

Charles Ross, Richard III. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1981.

Cora Scofield, The Life and Reign of Edward IV. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1923 (2 volumes).

George Smith, The Coronation of Elizabeth Wydeville. Gloucester: Gloucester Reprints, 1975 (originally published 1935).

Anne Sutton and Livia Visser-Fuchs, "A 'Most Benevolent Queen': Queen Elizabeth Woodville's Reputation, Her Piety and Her Books." The Ricardian, 1995.

Grant Uden, The Knight and the Merchant. New York: Roy Publishers, Inc. (no date). Deals with Anthony Woodville and William Caxton, whose printing business he patronized.

 

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