Linda Porter (born 1947) is an historian and British novelist.
Early life
Porter was born in Exeter, Devon in 1947. Her family has long-standing connections to the
West Country
The West Country (occasionally Westcountry) is a loosely defined area of South West England, usually taken to include all, some, or parts of the counties of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset, Bristol, and, less commonly, Wiltshire, Gloucesters ...
, but moved to the London area when she was a small child. She was educated at
Walthamstow Hall School in
Sevenoaks
Sevenoaks is a town in Kent with a population of 29,506 situated south-east of London, England. Also classified as a civil parishes in England, civil parish, Sevenoaks is served by a commuter South Eastern Main Line, main line railway into Lon ...
and at the
University of York
, mottoeng = On the threshold of wisdom
, established =
, type = Public research university
, endowment = £8.0 million
, budget = £403.6 million
, chancellor = Heather Melville
, vice_chancellor = Charlie Jeffery
, students ...
, from which she has a doctorate in History. On completing her postgraduate work, she moved to New York and lectured at
Fordham University
Fordham University () is a Private university, private Jesuit universities, Jesuit research university in New York City. Established in 1841 and named after the Fordham, Bronx, Fordham neighborhood of the The Bronx, Bronx in which its origina ...
and the
City University of New York
The City University of New York ( CUNY; , ) is the Public university, public university system of Education in New York City, New York City. It is the largest urban university system in the United States, comprising 25 campuses: eleven Upper divis ...
.
Career
Porter moved back to England, and has worked as a journalist and been a senior adviser on international public relations to a major telecommunications company. In 2004 she won the Biographers Club/''Daily Mail'' prize.
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Previous Winners - Tony Lothian Prize. Her submission was ''Josephine’s Enemies.'' Retrieved 11 July 2014 Her first book, ''Mary Tudor: The First Queen'' was published in 2007. It was a biography of Queen
Mary I of England
Mary I (18 February 1516 – 17 November 1558), also known as Mary Tudor, and as "Bloody Mary" by her Protestant opponents, was Queen of England and Ireland from July 1553 and Queen of Spain from January 1556 until her death in 1558. Sh ...
presented a view of Mary as a decisive and clear-headed ruler, and a skilled political and diplomatic operator.
In 2010, her second book ''Katherine the Queen: The Remarkable Life of Katherine Parr'' was published.
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Text by Dr. Porter. This biography of Katherine Parr detailed her life as a queen and stepmother.
Her third book, ''Crown of Thistles: The Fatal Inheritance of Mary Queen of Scots'', was published by Macmillan in 2013.
About Linda.
Text by Dr. Porter. It tells the story of a divided family and how Scotland and England because one nation.
In 2014 Dr. Porter continued to do public speaking and published articles and book reviews
[Porter, Linda. '' Tending the White Rose''. Literary Review. November 2013, pp. 8-10] as well as doing research for a fourth book.
Porter's fourth book, ''Royal Renegades: The Children of Charles I and the English Civil Wars'' follows the lives of Charles I’s family.
Text by Dr. Porter.
The author’s fifth book, ''Mistresses: Sex and Scandal at the Court of Charles II'', was published in the UK on 16 April 2020.
Personal life
Porter is married and has one daughter. She lives in Kent.
Published works
* ''Mary Tudor: The First Queen'' (2007)
* ''The First Queen of England: The Myth of "Bloody Mary" ''(2008)
* ''Katherine the Queen: The Remarkable Life of Katherine Parr" ''(2010)
* ''Katherine the Queen: The Remarkable Life of Katherine Parr, the Last Wife of Henry VIII" ''(2010)
* ''Crown of Thistles: The Fatal Inheritance of Mary Queen of Scots" ''(2013)
* ''Tudors Versus Stewarts: The Fatal Inheritance of Mary Queen of Scots" ''(2014)
* ''Royal Renegades: The Children of Charles I and the English Civil Wars" ''(2016)
* ''Mistresses: Sex and Scandal at the Court of Charles II" ''(2020)
Notes
External links
Linda Porter Home Page
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English biographers
1947 births
Living people
Alumni of the University of York
Writers from Exeter
British expatriate academics in the United States
English women non-fiction writers
City College of New York faculty
20th-century English women writers
20th-century English historians
20th-century biographers
21st-century English women writers
People educated at Walthamstow Hall
21st-century biographers
Women biographers