Rough Wooing
Tom Shippey: Queen Matilda, 17 November 2011
Matilda: Queen of the Conqueror
by Tracy Borman.
Cape, 297 pp., £20, September 2011,978 0 224 09055 1 Show More
by Tracy Borman.
Cape, 297 pp., £20, September 2011,
“... any revival of Mercian demands for independence. And the same seems to be true of the topic Tracy Borman has now chosen, Matilda, wife of William the Conqueror. Borman, now chief executive of the Heritage Education Trust, has already published two books looking at female figures of the past. King’s ... ”