Mistress of mourning / Karen Harper.

Title:

ISBN:

9780451236906

Personal Author:

Harper, Karen (Karen S.)

Publication Information:

New York : New American Library, [2012]

Physical Description:

399 pages ; 21 cm

Summary:

London, 1501. In a time of political unrest, Varina Westcott, a young widow and candle maker for court and church, agrees to perform a clandestine service for Queen Elizabeth of York, wife of Henry VII: carve wax figures of four dead children, two of her offspring lost in infancy and her two brothers, the Princes of the Tower, whose mysterious disappearance years ago has never been solved.

Personal Subject:

Elizabeth, Queen, consort of Henry VII, King of England, 1465-1503-Fiction.

Geographic Term:

Great Britain -- History -- Henry VII, 1485-1509 -- Fiction.

Subject Term:

Grief -- Fiction

Candlemaking -- Fiction.

Wax figures -- Fiction

Wax modellers -- Fiction

Conspiracies--England -- History 16th century

Genre:

Historical fiction