The first novel in the Wideacre series is also called Wideacre. In order to find her own destiny, Mary realizes that she will need to defy her family and take her fate into her own hands. As the king’s interest in her begins to wane, she is forced to step aside for her best friend, rival, and sister: Anne Boleyn. However, it doesn’t take her long to realize that she is simply a pawn in her family’s ambitious plans. Mary is easily dazzled by the king and falls in love with him and her new unofficial role as unofficial queen. The story sees Mary Boleyn coming to court at the age of just fourteen when she manages to catch the eye of Henry VIII. The Other Boleyn Girl is one of Gregory’s most popular books. Gregory also received an award from the Committee for Racial Equality. The series was a best-seller, the story focuses on things like love, incest and land.Ī Respectable Trade, a novel of the slave trade in England, as set in 18th-century Bristol, was accepted by Gregory for adaptation as a four-part drama series for BBC Television. While reading the novels set in the 17th century, it inspired her to write the Lacy trilogy. Philippa writes historical novels that she sets in a variety of different periods in history, primarily the Tudor period of the last 16th century. Things ultimately did not work out with Paul Carter and she later married Anthony Mason, who she first met in Hartlepool. Gregory married Paul Carter, her second husband there, and the two had a son together. Philippa was also a fellow at Kingston University.įollowing the success of Wideacre, during the publication of The Favoured Child, she transferred south to be near Midhurst, West Sussex the place where the Wideacre trilogy was set. She taught at the Durham University, the University of Teesside, and at the Open University. The University of Edinburgh is where she earned her doctorate on 18th-century literature. Philippa worked at a radio station known as BBD for about two years prior to attending the University of Edinburgh. She had went into the journalism college in Cardiff and spent a year being an apprentice with the Portsmouth News.ĭuring this time, she earned her in English literature at the University of Sussex where she had switched into a history course. Despite her reputation, she garnered a B grade in the subject English and two E grades in Geography and History at the A level. She was known to be a rebel in their school at Colston’s Girls’ School. When she was two years old, her family migrated to Bristol, England to live.
She is the second daughter of author Percy Gregory, a radio operator for East African Airways. Gregory was born on January 9, 1954, on the continent of Africa in Nairobi, Kenya. Philippa is best known for writing The Other Boleyn Girl which went on to win the Romantic Novel of the Year Award from the Romantic Novelists’ Association. Philippa Gregory is a historical novelist out of Britain.
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