The English writer Agnes Strickland (1796 1874) began her career writing poetry and romances before turning to biographical studies. This eight-volume series, written in collaboration with her sister Elizabeth, and first published between 1840 and 1849, was her most ambitious project. It provides biographical accounts of the queens of England from Matilda of Flanders to Queen Anne. Hugely popular in the Victorian period, Lives of the Queens of England and its sequel Lives of the Queens of Scotland remain important landmarks in the development of biography as a genre, and provide interesting perspectives on women's contribution to modern historiography. Volume 5 is devoted to Anne of Denmark (1574 1619), Henrietta Maria of France (1609 1669), and the Portuguese Infanta Catharine of Braganza (1638 1705). For more information on these authors, see http: //orlando. cambridge. org/public/svPeople?person_id=striel and http: //orlando. cambridge. org/public/svPeople?person_id=striag" | Lives of the Queens of England from the Norman Conquest by Agnes Strickland, Paperback | Indigo Chapters