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  • Bibliography:
    12 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    April 1984
  • Latest Book:
    October 2013
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Full Series List in Order

Henry VIII's Wives

The Favored Queen (Oct-2011)
The Unfaithful Queen (Sep-2012)

Book List in Order: 12 titles



  • In this remarkable biography, Carolly Erickson brings Elizabeth I to life and allows us to see her as a living, breathing, elegant, flirtatious, diplomatic, violent, arrogant, and outrageous woman who commands our attention, fascination, and awe.With...



  • Josephine Tascher de la Pagerie, born a Creole on the island of Martinique in the French West Indies, became one of the best known and most envied women who ever lived. Sent to France to make an advantageous marriage to a young aristocrat, her na...



  • Imagine that, on the night before she is to die under the blade of the guillotine, Marie Antoinette leaves behind in her prison cell a diary telling the story of her life--from her privileged childhood as Austrian Archduchess to her years as glamorou...



  • From the bestselling and critically acclaimed author of The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette comes a powerful new novel about Catherine Parr, The Last Wife of Henry VIII. The least known of Henry VIII's six wives was the cleverest of them all. Al...



  • Lilibet: An Intimate Portrait of Elizabeth II...



  • The bestselling author of The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette and The Last Wife of Henry VIII returns with an enchanting novel about the ambitious, amoral, vulnerable woman who became the first wife of Napoleon Bonaparte. Fashion icon, leader of ...



  • From the bestselling author of The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette comes a dramatic novel and powerful love story about the last Russian imperial family. It is 1989 and Daria Gradov is an elderly grandmother living in the rural West. What neigh...



  • In this dramatic, compelling fictional memoir Carolly Erickson lets the courageous, spirited Mary Queen of Scots tell her own story -- and the result is a novel readers will long remember. Born Queen of Scotland, married as a young girl to the inv...



  • From the New York Times bestselling author of The Last Wife of Henry VIII comes a novel about the bitter rivalry between Queen Elizabeth I and her fascinating cousin, Lettice Knollys, for the love of one extraordinary man Powerful, dramatic and full...






  • From The New York Times bestselling author of The Last Wife of Henry VIII comes a powerful and moving novel about Jane Seymour, third wife of Henry VIII, who married him only days after the execution of Anne Boleyn and ultimately lost her own life in...



  • From New York Times bestselling author of The Last Wife of Henry VIII, a novel about Catherine Howard, wife of Henry's later years Amid the turbulent, faction-ridden late reign of the fearsome Henry, eager high-spirited Catherine Howard caught th...



  • From the New York Times bestselling author of The Last Wife of Henry VIII comes a powerful and moving novel about Catherine of Aragon, Henry VIII's first wife and mother of Mary I When young Catherine of Aragon, proud daughter of King Ferdinand an...


Award-Winning Books by Carolly Erickson

The Tsarina's Daughter
2008 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Historical Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Carolly Erickson has published 12 books.

Carolly Erickson does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Spanish Queen, was published in October 2013.

The first book by Carolly Erickson, The First Elizabeth, was published in April 1984.

Yes. Carolly Erickson has 1 series.