Carolly Erickson Books in Order

Told in Catherine of Aragon’s own voice, this novel follows her from a pampered Spanish childhood and first marriage to Prince Arthur through years as Henry VIII’s queen, fighting for her marriage, her faith, and her daughter’s place in England.

This story gives Catherine Howard her say, tracing her path from neglected girl to Henry VIII’s young fifth queen, haunted by past lovers and a new passion for Thomas Culpeper while court intrigue tightens around her.

Jane Seymour begins as a quiet maid of honor watching Catherine of Aragon fall and Anne Boleyn rise. As Henry VIII turns his eye to her, she must weigh desire, conscience, and the deadly consequences of becoming the king’s third wife.

Centered on Elizabeth I’s cousin Lettice Knollys, this novel explores her secret love for Robert Dudley and the fierce rivalry with the Virgin Queen that erupts when two ambitious women compete for the same man and the same glittering court.

Written as Mary Stuart’s own memoir, this novel follows her from girl bride in France to embattled queen in Scotland and captive in England, capturing her disastrous marriages, daring escapes, and stubborn sense of royal dignity.

An elderly woman in the American West reveals she is really Grand Duchess Tatiana, daughter of Nicholas II, and recalls a life of imperial luxury, war, revolution, Siberian captivity, and a desperate bid to escape the Romanovs’ fate.

Reimagining Josephine Bonaparte’s life, this novel moves from her Caribbean girlhood and narrow escapes during the Terror to her role as style setter and Napoleon’s first wife, balancing hardheaded survival with vulnerability and risky love affairs.

A compact set of portraits of England’s kings and queens, this book offers brisk sketches of each reign from the Norman Conquest onward, highlighting personality, politics, and the decisive moments that reshaped the crown.

Speaking as Catherine Parr, this novel follows Henry VIII’s clever sixth wife as she hides her love for Thomas Seymour, navigates stepmotherhood and religious tension, and tries to stay alive in a court where queens can still die.

Cast as a secret journal left before her execution, this novel lets Marie Antoinette recount her journey from Austrian archduchess to French queen, her love for Axel Fersen, and the terror of revolution closing in on Versailles.

Narrative nonfiction about Mary Bryant, a poor Cornish woman transported to the Botany Bay penal colony, who endures a brutal voyage, starvation and danger in New South Wales, and a remarkable open‑boat escape that captures the British public’s imagination.

An intimate life of Queen Elizabeth II, tracing her path from cautious, horse‑mad girl nicknamed Lilibet to long‑serving monarch, and exploring how family pressures, political crises, and a changing empire shaped her reign.

A biography of Tsarina Alexandra that follows her from shy German princess to embattled empress of Russia, examining her devotion to Nicholas II, anguish over her son’s illness, dependence on Rasputin, and role in the Romanovs’ tragic end.

A reflective guide to writing a spiritual autobiography, this book offers questions, examples, and gentle structure to help readers trace the arc of their inner lives through childhood, loss, work, faith, and change.

This portrait of Queen Victoria follows her from anxious young heiress to widowed matriarch, exploring her intense marriage to Albert, her grief, her political influence, and the ways her long reign reshaped Britain and its empire.

A full‑length life of Catherine the Great that traces her from obscure German princess and unhappy wife to ruler of Russia, charting the coup that brought her to power, her reforms, and the court intrigues and love affairs that marked her reign.

Nonfiction account of Marie Antoinette’s life, from awkward Austrian bride to doomed queen of France, separating legend from reality as it follows her lavish court, political misjudgments, and final walk to the guillotine.

A narrative biography of Charles Edward Stuart, the Young Pretender who led the 1745 Jacobite rising, describing his bold march toward London, defeat at Culloden, years in hiding, and later decline into bitterness and ill health.

A social history of Regency England that uses vivid portraits of princes, politicians, hostesses, and ordinary people to show how war, fashion, scandal, and reform reshaped British society in the early nineteenth century.

A biography of Anne Boleyn that looks past myth to her upbringing, ambitions, and love affair with Henry VIII, tracing how religious change and court politics lifted her to the throne and then pushed her toward the scaffold.

A richly textured life of Elizabeth I that captures her dangerous youth, sharp political instincts, love of spectacle, and the balancing act that let her rule as the Virgin Queen in a world wary of female power.

An engaging survey of a thousand years of English monarchy, offering short, character‑driven portraits of every ruler from William the Conqueror to Elizabeth II and showing how their choices altered the kingdom’s fortunes.

This biography follows Josephine from her precarious Caribbean childhood and survival of the Terror to her glittering but fragile position as empress, examining the charm, debts, and emotional wounds behind Napoleon’s famously captivating wife.

A full‑scale biography of Henry VIII that follows his rise from gifted Renaissance prince to suspicious, aging ruler, set against the splendor and brutality of the Tudor court and the six marriages that defined his reign.

A one‑volume survey of Western civilization that introduces major political, social, and cultural developments from antiquity into the modern era, designed to give students a clear framework for understanding how Western societies evolved.

A substantial biography of Mary Tudor, charting Henry VIII’s eldest daughter through childhood reversals, deep Catholic faith, brief and troubled queenship, and the burnings that earned her the name Bloody Mary amid Europe’s religious wars.

A collection of essays on how medieval Europeans perceived their world, exploring ideas about God, nature, property, authority, women, crime, and outsiders, and showing how those mental frameworks shaped daily life and institutions.

An anthology of translated documents from roughly 300 to 1350, bringing together laws, letters, charters, chronicles, and sermons that illuminate government, commerce, religion, and everyday experience across medieval Europe.