Details:
- author: Leah Redmond Chang
- full title: Young Queens
- narrator: Olivia Dowd
- genre: nonfiction, history
- topics: #queens, #CatherinedeMedici, #ElisabethdeValois, #MaryQueenofScots
- publisher: Recorded Books
- publish date: 15 Aug 2023
- timing: 18:28:00
My Rating of the Audiobook:
- content: 💙💙💙💙.5
- narration: 💙💙💙💙💙
My Thoughts:
Queen consort, sovereign queen, and queen mother. This (audio)book focuses on the three queens and their younger years.
Catherine de Medici, Elisabeth de Valois, and Mary Queen of Scots are three remarkable women from the Renaissance era. Catherine de Medici, a commoner born into the Medici family of Florence, would rise to become the Queen of France. Elisabeth de Valois was her daughter and wife of Philip II of Spain. Mary Queen of Scots was crowned a queen in her infancy. She was exiled, imprisoned, and ultimately executed.
Young Queens is a very intriguing book and doesn’t feel like non-fiction. Although it’s pretty long, it’s interesting until the end.
The narration is excellent.
About the Author:
Leah Redmond Chang writes biography and literary non-fiction, with a focus on women’s history. She trained as a literature scholar, and her books draw on her extensive experience as a researcher in the archives and in rare book libraries. A former tenured professor of French Literature and Culture at The George Washington University, she has also been an Honorary Senior Research Associate at University College London. She lives with her family in Washington DC, and spends as much time as possible in London, her favorite city.
