Larger	Catherine of Aragon Author: Garrett Mattingly
	Book Information Publisher: Book-of-the-Month-Club Book Type: Hardcover Rating: 3 ISBN-13: 172208 - ISBN-10: Publication Date: 1990 Pages: 476 Book Reviews

For 24 years, she was wife of Henry VIII. England loved her, and Henry loved, respected and eventually feared her. Wolsey hated her. Twice she saved England, once from invasion, once from Civil War. Here is a rare book, brilliantly readable, buttressed by scholarship and research, which will enable you to see history through new eyes. It is the biography of the daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain, who became Henry VIII's first wife, and whose daughter Mary eventually became queen of England. It is the story of a lonely woman, intelligent, loyal and courageous, dedicated to duty and truth, who fought one of England's greatest monarch's to a standstill. No other woman in the Renaissance and Reformation, except perhaps Queen Elizabeth I, influenced the history of England as much as Catherine of Aragon.