Queen's Gambit: Soon To Be a Major Motion Picture, FIREBRAND (The Tudor Trilogy, 1)

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The descriptive power of the novel transported me straight to the heart of Renaissance Rome with some passages so beautiful I had to read them twice. Based on the novel by Elizabeth Fremantle titled Queen's Gambit (no relation to the Netflix series), Firebrand examines the period of Tudor England in which Catherine Parr became queen consort to an ageing King Henry VIII. I doubt if I shall read a more deliciously sinister historical novel this year (Andrew Taylor) • Beautifullywritten. The film will chronicle her torment at the hands of the cruel monarch, as well as the strength of her will to avoid the death sentence handed to both Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard.

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Fremantle's themes of women and power and are linked by her interest in exploring the invisibility of early modern women's lives. She worked as a fashion editor for ELLE UK followed by British Vogue and then in France for Vogue Paris. In the 1990s she attended Birkbeck, University of London as a mature student gaining a 1st class BA in English Literature and the Prize for English, followed by a masters in Creative Writing.Since finishing her creative writing masters at Birkbeck, Fremantle has published six Tudor and Jacobean set novels with Michael Joseph, an imprint of Penguin Random House UK. Gripping, captivating, and consistently enlightening, Disobedient firmly places Gentileschi as one of the greatest artists and heroines in history. Firebrand does not yet have a cinema release date, but Varietyreports that distributor STX International has acquired the rights to the film in the UK. This article includes a list of references, related reading, or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations. Fremantle’s Artemisia is passionate, brilliant, absolutely true to herself and is now one of my favourite fictional characters of all time.

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The cast also includes Sam Riley (Rebecca) and Eddie Marsan ( The Power ) as Thomas and Edward Seymour – brother and father of Jane, Henry's third wife, who died in childbirth after giving him his much-wanted son. She has had work published in various other publications including Vanity Fair, The Sunday Times, The Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times and occasionally reviews fiction for the Sunday Express.It was truly like stepping back in time: the costumes and sets exquisite and accurate to the last detail. The film follows Parr's fight to avoid the grisly execution that befell two of Henry's former wives, which involves having to carefully hide her horror and grief towards his actions.