Nine Days a Queen

by Ann Rinaldi

First published 2005

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Lady Jane Grey is raised within the dangerous ambitions of the Tudor elite, educated to unusual depth but denied control over marriage and succession. After Edward VI’s death, powerful adults place her on the throne in an attempt to prevent Mary Tudor’s accession.

Jane’s nine-day reign becomes the culmination of years in which obedience, Protestant conviction and family pressure have narrowed her choices. The novel presents her not merely as an innocent victim but as an intelligent young woman trying to act morally within a political system that converts kinship and religion into instruments of power.

Historical Periods

Lady Jane Grey Succession Crisis1553-07-06–1554-02-12

Genres

Biographical Fiction Children’s & Young Adult Fiction Court & Political Fiction Dynastic & Royal Fiction

Historical people

Catherine Parr1512–1548 Mary I1516–1558 Edward VI1537–1553 Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley1508–1549 Elizabeth I1533–1603 Lady Jane Grey1537–1554 John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland1504–1553 Lord Guildford Dudley1535–1554 Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk1517–1554 Frances Grey, Duchess of Suffolk1517–1559