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The March issue of ‘Notes and Queries’ included an article by Martin Spies, \u2018A Performance of Rowe’s Lady Jane Gray in 1852\u2019. He argued that the last performance of Rowe’s play was not at Covent Garden, London in 1774 but at The Theatre Royal, Hull in 1852.<\/p>\n
The ‘On the Nature of Women: Tudor and Jacobean Portraits of Women 1535-1620\u2019 exhibition opened at Montacute House, Somerset on April 30th (see blog<\/a><\/font><\/i><\/b>). It includes the National Portrait Gallery portrait, \u2018Unknown Woman, formerly known as Lady Jane Dudley (nee Grey)’ <\/a><\/b><\/i><\/font>. The exhibition runs until October 2009.<\/p>\n It was reported in the press in May that Alison Weir and Tracy Borman had discovered a copy of a portrait of Henry VIII, Will Somers, Edward, Mary and Elizabeth at Boughton House, Northamptonshire (see blog <\/i><\/font><\/b><\/a>). They suggested that the portrait of the young Princess Elizabeth could be used to identify the National Portrait Gallery\u2019s \u2018Unknown Woman, formerly known as Lady Jane Dudley (nee Grey)’<\/b><\/i><\/a><\/font>. An article by Weir and Borman appeared in the June issue of BBC History Magazine. The portrait was on display at Boughton House <\/b><\/a><\/i><\/font>during August.<\/p>\n The June issue of ‘Notes and Queries’ featured a further article about the birth date of Lady Jane by Dr J Stephan Edwards. In ‘A Further Note on the Date of Birth of Lady Jane Grey’ he argued that Jane was born in the second half of 1536.<\/p>\n A portrait of Mary Grey (possibly by Hans Eworth) was on display as part of the Portraits from Chequers: Kings, Queens and Revolutionaries’<\/b><\/font><\/i><\/a><\/fomnt exhibition at Compton Verney from June 7th to December 14th.\n\nIn July, Alison Weir gave a talk on \u2018The Tragedy of Lady Jane Grey\u2019 at the English Heritage Festival of History. Eric Ives gave a talk at Warwick Library in September about his upcoming work on Lady Jane.\n\nLeanda de Lisle very kindly answered my questions about her new book, 'The Sisters Who Would Be Queen', which is out in January. See Interview with Leanda de Lisle <\/b><\/i><\/a><\/font>. Harper Collins also allowed me to use the new cover art (see blog <\/font><\/b><\/i><\/a>).<\/p>\n Books that featured Jane included: \u2018Mary Tudor\u2019 by Judith M Richards, \u2018Catherine Parr: Henry VIII\u2019s Last Love\u2019 by Susan James, ‘The Tudor Chronicles’ by Susan Doran and \u2018She Wolves: The Notorious Queens of England\u2019 by Elizabeth Norton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The March issue of ‘Notes and Queries’ included an article by Martin Spies, \u2018A Performance of Rowe’s Lady Jane Gray in 1852\u2019. He argued that the last performance of Rowe’s play was not at Covent Garden, London in 1774 but … Continue reading