{"id":80,"date":"2012-08-16T08:28:50","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T07:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.ladyjanegrey.info\/?page_id=80"},"modified":"2026-02-09T12:21:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T12:21:03","slug":"ascham","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/?page_id=80","title":{"rendered":"Ascham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><BR><\/p>\n<p>This account of Lady Jane Grey was written by Roger Ascham, a tutor to Princess Elizabeth, after he visited Bradgate Park (the home of the Suffolks), Leicestershire in 1550.  He recorded his conversation with Lady Jane Grey in his book, <b> &#8216;The Schoolmaster&#8217;<\/b>, which was published in 1570.<\/p>\n<p><BR><\/p>\n<p>Their conversation can be found in the following:<\/p>\n<p> <b> Child-Life and Girlhood of Remarkable Women <\/b> by W H D Adams <\/p>\n<p> <b> The Schoolmaster<\/b> by Roger Ascham <\/p>\n<p> <b> Tudor Cousins: Rivals for the Throne <\/b> by Dulcie M Ashdown <\/p>\n<p> <b> Life of Lady Jane Grey and of Guildford Dudley her husband <\/b> by Edward Baldwin <\/p>\n<p> <b>Lady Katherine Grey: A Dynastic Tragedy<\/b> by Conor Byrne <\/p>\n<p> <b> Lady Jane Grey <\/b> by Hester W Chapman <\/p>\n<p> <b> Lady Jane Grey: Nine Day Queen of England <\/b> by Faith Cook <\/p>\n<p> <b>The Nine Days&#8217; Queen: Lady Jane Grey and Her Times <\/b> by Richard Davey <\/p>\n<p> <b>The Private Lives of the Tudor Monarchs<\/b> edited by Christopher Falkus <\/p>\n<p> <b> Jane Grey Reine De 9 Jours (1537-1554)<\/b> by Marguerite Fronville <\/p>\n<p> <b> Lady Jane Grey and Her Times<\/b> by George Howard <\/p>\n<p> <b> Lady Jane Grey: A Tudor Mystery <\/b> by Eric Ives <\/p>\n<p> <b> The Nine Days Queen: A Portrait of Lady Jane Grey <\/b> by Mary Luke <\/p>\n<p> <b> Women&#8217;s Lives in the Tudor Era <\/b> by Amy McElroy <\/p>\n<p> <b> Literary Remains of Lady Jane Grey: With a Memoir of Her Life <\/b> by Nicholas Harris Nicolas  <\/p>\n<p> <b> England&#8217;s Queens: The Biography <\/b> by Elizabeth Norton <\/p>\n<p> <b> Lady Jane Grey and the House of Suffolk <\/b> by Alison Plowden <\/p>\n<p> <b> Lady Jane Grey: Nine Days Queen <\/b> by Alison Plowden <\/p>\n<p> <b>  Tudor Women <\/b> by Alison Plowden <\/p>\n<p> <b> Lives of the Tudor Princesses <\/b> by Agnes Strickland <\/p>\n<p><b>Crown of Blood: The Deadly Inheritance of Lady Jane Grey<\/b> by Nicola Tallis<\/p>\n<p> <b> Documents of Lady Jane Grey: Nine Days Queen of England 1553 <\/b> by James D Taylor Jr <\/p>\n<p> <b> Children of England: The Heirs of King Henry VIII <\/b> by Alison Weir <\/p>\n<p> <b> State Trials, 1 Mary, 1553 and others for High Treason <\/b><\/p>\n<p> <b> The Cabinet Portrait Gallery of British Worthies Volume III <\/b><\/p>\n<p><BR><\/p>\n<p> Extracts can be found in the following: <\/p>\n<p><b>The Tragic Life of Lady Jane Grey<\/b> by Beverley Adams.<\/p>\n<p> <b> Two Tudor Portraits: Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey and Lady Katherine Grey <\/b> by Hester W Chapman <\/p>\n<p> <b> Three Maids for a Crown<\/b> by Ella March Chase (Referred to only) <\/p>\n<p> <b> Katherine Howard: A Tudor Conspiracy <\/b> by Joanna Denny <\/p>\n<p><b>Exploring the Lives of Women 1558-1837<\/b> by Louise Duckling and Sara Read et al<\/p>\n<p> <b> Arbella Stuart: A Rival to the Queen <\/b> by David N Durant <\/p>\n<p> <b> Arbella: England&#8217;s Lost Queen <\/b> by Sarah Gristwood <\/p>\n<p> <b> The Tudors in Love: The Courtly Code Behind the Last Medieval Dynasty <\/b> by Sarah Gristwood <\/p>\n<p> <b> The Story of Lady Jane Grey (Essay in Painting History: Delaroche and Lady Jane Grey)<\/b> by John Guy <\/p>\n<p><b>Tudor Executions<\/b> by Helene Harrison<\/p>\n<p><b>Killing Monarchs: Regicide in the Tudor and Stuart Age <\/b> by Richard Heath<\/p>\n<p> <b> The Turbulent Crown: The Story of the Tudor Queens <\/b> by Roland Hui <\/p>\n<p> <b> The Sisters Who Would Be Queen: The Tragedy of Mary, Katherine and Lady Jane Grey<\/font><\/b> by Leanda de Lisle <\/p>\n<p><b>Tudor: The Family Story<\/b> by Leanda de Lisle <\/p>\n<p> <b> The Tudor Queens of England<\/b> by David Loades (quote only)<\/p>\n<p> <b> Bess of Hardwick: First Lady of Chatsworth <\/b> by Mary S Lovell <\/p>\n<p> <b> The World of Lady Jane Grey <\/b> by Gladys Malvern <\/p>\n<p><b>Uncrowned: Royal Heirs Who Didn&#8217;t Take The Throne<\/b> by Ashley Mantle<\/p>\n<p> <b> Catherine Parr <\/b> by Elizabeth Norton<\/p>\n<p> <b> She Wolves: The Notorious Queens of England <\/b> by Elizabeth Norton <\/p>\n<p> <b> Silent But For The Word: Tudor Women as Patrons, Translators, and Writers of Religious Works <\/b> edited by Margaret Patterson Hannay <\/p>\n<p><b>Princely Education in Early Modern Britain<\/b> by Aysha Pollnitz<\/p>\n<p> <b> Edward VI: The Lost King of England<\/b> by Chris Skidmore <\/p>\n<p> <b> Secrets of the Tudor Portraits<\/b> by Sylvia Soberton<\/p>\n<p> <b> Lady Jane: From the screenplay by David Edgar <\/b> by A C H Smith.  In this novel, the conversation is between Dr Feckenham and Lady Jane.<\/p>\n<p> <b> Bradgate Park: Childhood Home of Lady Jane Grey <\/b> by Joan Stevenson and Anthony Squires <\/p>\n<p> <b> Innocent Traitor <\/font><\/b> by Alison Weir <\/p>\n<p> <b> Traitors of the Tower <\/b> by Alison Weir <\/p>\n<p> <b> Lady Jane Grey: Reluctant Queen <\/b> by Marguerite Vance<\/p>\n<p> <b> Sovereign Ladies: The Six Reigning Queens of England <\/b> by Maureen Waller<\/font><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This account of Lady Jane Grey was written by Roger Ascham, a tutor to Princess Elizabeth, after he visited Bradgate Park (the home of the Suffolks), Leicestershire in 1550. 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