Portraits of Lady Jane Grey Dudley, England’s ‘Nine Days Queen’
Announcing the publication on 12 February 2024 of a Revised Edition of my book on the portraiture (or ‘iconography,’ in art history terminology) of Jane Grey Dudley!
Lady Jane Grey’s Prayer Book
The prayer book that Lady Jane Grey carried with her to the scaffold on the day of her execution on 12 February 1554, now part of the British Library’s collection as Harley Manuscript 2342.
Lady Jane Grey’s Prayer Book
British Library Harley Manuscript 2342
Available now through Amazon and most online retailers.
This page originally contained an illustrated transcription of the Lady Jane Grey’s prayer book in its entirety. That content has since been removed and is instead now incorporated into a printed volume.
In the new printed book, each page of the original manuscript is depicted in full color and at actual size, and each image is accompanied by a precise transcription of the text, together with a rendering of that text in modern English. An Introduction places the prayer book in its full historical context and also offers a brief biographical sketch of the Lady Jane Grey.
It is hoped that the book will be a valuable resource for scholars of religion, of the Reformation, and of women’s devotional literature. It may also serve as an inspirational text for modern persons of faith, one which carries a compelling association with one of the first of the Marian martyrs from the early years of the Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth century.
Fully Illustrated and Transcribed with an Introduction by J. Stephan Edwards, Ph.D.
- Full-color printing on premium paper
- 336 pages
- 284 manuscript images
- 9 additional illustrations
- Includes a Bibliography and an Index
Queen Jane, Where Are You?
This article was published in “Tudor Life,” the online magazine of The Tudor Society.com, issue number 6, February 2015, pages 8-17.
A Life Framed in Portraits: An Early Portrait of Mary Nevill Fiennes, Lady Dacre
An article on the Wrest Park Portrait put forward in 2007 by Philip Mould and Bendor Grosvenor as a posthumous depiction of Jane Grey Dudley, re-identified here and published in ‘The British Art Journal’ Vol. XIV, No. 2 (January 2014), 14-20.