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Jessie Childs was born in 1976 and educated at West
Heath, Stowe School and Brasenose College, Oxford, where she
read history and took a first in
1999.
Her first book,
Henry VIII’s Last Victim: The
Life and Times of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
, won the Elizabeth Longford
Prize for Historical Biography in 2007. She regularly speaks at literary
festivals, local institutions and on the radio and has
reviewed for various publications, including The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday
Telegraph and Standpoint.
She lives in London with her husband James and is currently
working on her second book, a tale of plots, priest-holes
and persecution in the reign of Elizabeth I. |
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