Philippa Gregory Books In Order

Publication Order of Wideacre Books

Publication Order of Princess Florizella Children’s Books

Publication Order of Earthly Joys/Tradescant Books

Publication Order of Plantagenet and Tudor Books

Chronological Order of Plantagenet and Tudor Books

Publication Order of Order Of Darkness Books

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Publication Order of Short Story Collections

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

About Philippa Gregory:

Philippa Gregory is a historical novelist, her current nationalism is British, she has been writing since 1987 and she is best known by The Other Boleyn Girl last 2001 in which last 2002, she achieved her victory on the Romantic Novel of the Year Award, coming from the Romantic Novelists’ Association.

LIFE

She was born on January 9, 1954 in the continent of Africa, specifically in Nairobi, Kenya, she is the 2nd daughter of Author Percy Gregory, a radio operator for East African Airways and Elaine. Back when she was two years old, she and her family migrated to Bristol, England and lived there.

She had lived to write her first novel Wideacre at the same time, completing a PhD in the 18 century literature.

She was known to be, a “rebel”, in their school at Colston’s Girls’ School, the school where she garnered a B grade in the subject English and two E grades in Geography and History at the A level. She had went into the journalism college somewhere in Cardiff, she spent a year being an apprentice with the Portsmouth News, just right before she handled to gain a place in English literature degree in her course at the University of Sussex, it is where she had switched into a history course. She had worked on a radio station known to be BBD for about two years, when she wasn’t attending University of Edinburgh, yet. University of Edinburgh is her school, the fact that she have learned her doctorate on the 18th century literature. She had taught in the Durham University, University of Teesside and in the Open University, she was a fellow of the Kingston University last 1994.

As she follows the success of Wideacre, during the publication of The Favoured Child, she transferred south to be near Midhurst, West Sussex the place where Wideacre trilogy was set. She married Paul Carter, her second husband in there, and fortunately they had a son. She had divorced Paul Carter, the second time of her divorce and she married Anthony Mason, the guy whom she first met in Hartlepool.

WRITING

Writing novels, she had been doing it in a variety of special and several different periods in history, doing the primarily Tudor period in the last 16th century. While reading the novels set in the 17th century, it led her to have written the Lacy trilogy, which was a best-selling book, in which the story focuses about love, incest and land. The favored Meridon, the child. She has been followed by The Wise Woman. A Respectable Trade, a novel of the slave trade in England, as set in the 18th century Bistol, was accepted by the Gregory for a quad part drama series towards a BBC Television. Her script was in a nomination for a BAFTA, she had won an award coming from the Committee on regarding for the Racial Equality, her film has been shown international.

The two novels that talks about a family for gardening were set actually during the English Civil War. The names are Earthly Joys and Virgin Earth, in spite she has in addition on a written contemporary fiction. – Perfectly Correct.

CONTROVERSY

Her novel about the Other Boleyn Girl, on her act as Henry VIII’s second wife who’s Anne Boleyn had drew up criticism from the viewers, the depiction of the novel Anne was ruthless and cold, while heavily applying in the accusations she had committed incest and adultery towards his brother, were set true, despite, she was being accepted widely about her, as an innocent lady of the charges. As well as the Novelist Maxwell declined on the law to write a blurb on this book. Describing how she was portrayed, as “ vicious, unsupportable ”. The historians have taken act unto this, according to David Starkey, she has been appearing along Gregory, in the documentary of Anne Boleyn.

MEDIA

Philippa has been a frequent contributor along newspapers and magazines, telling short stories, reviews and features. She, as well is a broadcaster, and a contestant of the BBC Radio 4’s Round Britain Quiz, on the expertise of Tudor for the Time Team, by Channel 4. Winning last 29th of December 2008, the edition of Mastermind Celebrities, on BBC 1, resulted to taking Woodville, Elizabeth as her subject, specially.

CHARITY WORK

She is not just a simple celebrity and mastermind, she is also a girl who has sympathy and love for others respectively, and she’d been running a building for a charity of the school gardens, in The Gambia. As well as researching for the book “ A Respectable Trade ”.

Alongside, the charity has been digging almost 200 low budget, and low technology and easily maintained wells that are on stream, sustaining water, irrigating the school, community gardens providing meals unto the poor children, to harvest a crop and buy school seeds, tools and equipments.

Additionally, the charity had successfully piloted a scheme for bee-keeping, and has been funding feeding programs, together with educational workshops in pottery and batik, working with donors who can donate large amount for the installation of mechanical boreholes in some areas of the country that are in remote status, where the table for water is not accessible, just by you, digging alone.

PHILIPPA GREGORY BIBLIOGRAPHY

She had written several trilogies, such as Wideacre in the year 1987, The Favoured Child of 1989, and Meridon last 1990 for her Wideacre Trilogy.

She also had written several stories for Earthly Joys that includes “ Earthly Joys ” last 1998 and Virgin Earth of 1999.

The series for Tudor is also being written, comprised by the Other Boleyn Girl of 2001, the Queen’s Fool for 2003, Vigin’s lover for 2004, The Constant Princess of 2005, The Boleyn Inheritance for 2006 and lastly, “ The Other Queen ” just last 2008.

She have also written non series books, such as A Respectable Trade past 1992, The Wise Woman, in the same year, Fallen Skies for 1994, the Little House for 1998, Zelda’s Cut for 200, Perfectly Correct in the year 1992 and many more.

One of the known short stories made by her would be Bread and Chocolate in the year 2002. She also have written works for the children, such as A Pirate Story, DIggory of the Boa Conductor, Princess Florizella, Stormbringer, Princess Florizella and the Wolves, Princess Florizella and the giant, and the Changeling.

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