Please journal again when you've read the book to describe what you thought, and again when it is on its way to the next reader. When about halfway through, please contact the next person on the list for their mailing address as sometimes it can take a while to get a response.Ĥ. Please read the book before other books (excluding any rings/rays that arrived first)Try to have this book read within 4 weeks.ģ. Please journal when you receive the book to let others know it has arrived safely.Ģ. This book is not yet travelling and is on offer to anyone who wants to continue reading the series.ġ. There is currently a bookray operating for the first book in the series. Strategic marriages and unexplainable deaths are apparently run-of-the-mill for this ambitious Queen: a Queen who was second in power probably only to Elizabeth I.' Although her children are terrified of her, Catherine will scheme -and kill - to keep the Medici line on the throne. But this spirited, somewhat morally decrepit woman is loved by few, if any. 'In the time of Catherine de Medici, 'Italian' wassynonomous with 'poisoner.' Henry II is dead, and Catherine is now QueenRegent. The Italian Woman (1952) (aka The Unholy Woman)

This is the second book in the Catherine De Medici series.Ģ.

Her books written under this pseudonym were popular with the general public and were also hailed by critics and historians for their historical accuracy, quality of writing, and attention to detail. She chose the pseudonym Jean Plaidy for her historical novels about the crowned heads of Europe. By the time of her death, she had sold over 100 million books Her best-known pseudonyms were Jean Plaidy, Victoria Holt, and Philippa Carr she also wrote under the names Eleanor Burford, Elbur Ford, Kathleen Kellow, Anne Percival, and Ellalice Tate. Jean Plaidy is one of the pen names of British authorEleanor Hibbert (01-09-1906 to 18-01-1993).

The Italian Woman by Jean Plaidy