PUBLICATIONS - Lady Jane Grey

‘Plain Jane’: Did Lady Jane Grey Habitually Wear Plain and Somber Attire?

The Jane-ian mythology asserts that Lady Jane Grey habitually wore plain attire in somber colors. This article challenges that myth by tracing its origin and development in the centuries after Jane’s death in 1554. The article was published in ‘Notes & Queries’ Vol. 72, No. 4 (December 2025), directly accessible online at https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjaf106.

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Re-examining the New Evidence for Identifying the Wrest Park Portrait as Lady Jane Grey

This article examines ‘new’ evidence presented in March 2025 by the Courtauld Institute related to the identification of the sitter in the Wrest Park portrait and reiterates a previous identification of the sitter as Mary Nevill Fiennes, Lady Dacre. It was published in ‘The British Art Journal: Online’ Vol. XXV, No. 2, 14 November 2025.

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The Final Resting Place of Lady Jane Grey

This article challenges the traditional assumption that Jane Grey was buried in the Chapel of St Peter ad Vincula within the Tower of London. It was published in Oxford’s ‘Notes & Queries,’ 72:1 (March 2025), 32-36.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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A New Portrait of Mary Rogers, Lady Harington

An article I wrote in 2011 and that was first published in The British Art Journal, XII:2 (Autumn 2011), pp. 54–57.

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A Further Note On the Date of Birth of Lady Jane Grey Dudley

A June 2008 update to a previous article published in September 2007 that challenges the date of birth traditionally assigned to Jane Grey Dudley. This update was originally published in the scholarly journal “Notes and Queries,” volume 55, issue number 2 (June 2008), pages 146-148, by Oxford University Press.

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On the Date of Birth of Jane Grey Dudley

This first article on the subject of Jane Grey Dudley’s date of birth originally appeared on pages 240-242 of the scholarly journal “Notes and Queries,” volume 54, issue number 3 (September 2007), published by Oxford University Press.

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A New Face for the Lady

An article, now outdated, on a portrait by Hans Eworth in the collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum at Cambridge University that was published in the magazine “History Today,” Volume 55, Number 12 (December 2005), pages 44-45.

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The Carmina of Publilius Optatianus Porphyrius and the Creative Process

This article on the Carmina Figurata of Publilius Optatianus Porphyrius began as a research paper for a seminar on Late Antiquity during my graduate studies at San Francisco State University. After several revisions, it was presented at the Sixth Annual Student Forum on the Ancient World hosted by the Classics Department at SFSU in October 2001. Following further revisions, it was published as a chapter in “Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History,” Volume XII (edited by Carl Deroux, published in Brusselles by Collection Latomus, 2005), pages 447 – 466.