Sarah Gristwood Explained

Sarah Gristwood is an English journalist and author.^[1] She was born in Kent, grew up in Dover^[2] and educated at St Anne's College, Oxford.^[1]

As a journalist she has written for a number of British papers, including The Times, The Guardian and the Telegraph.^[3] She has written historical biographies as well as fiction, and has contributed to television documentaries.^[3]

Gristwood's historical biography, Arbella: England's Lost Queen is about Lady Arbella Stuart, an English noblewoman who was considered a possible successor to Elizabeth I. In a review in The Times, Kevin Sharpe wrote, "Sarah Gristwood presents a powerful story of the dynastic insecurity of the Tudors and Stuarts, and of the vulnerability of Elizabeth and James to foreign and domestic intrigues."^[4] Sarah Gristwood accepted the invitation of the Royal Stuart Society, on the occasion of the Quatercentenary of the death of Arbella, to give a Lecture with the title: Lady Arbella Stuart – England’s Lost Queen?

Her book, Game of Queens: The Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe, focuses on five queens: Catherine de Medici, Anne Boleyn, Mary I of England, Elizabeth I, and Mary, Queen of Scots.^[5]

She has appeared in the movie Venice/Venice (1992), and as herself in the television series Stars of the Silver Screen (2011) and Discovering Fashion: The Designers (2015).^[6]

Gristwood was married to the film critic Derek Malcolm from 1994 until his death in 2023.^{[7] [8]}

Bibliography

• Perdita: Royal Mistress, Writer, Romantic (2005). Bantam.
• Arbella: England's Lost Queen (2005). Houghton Mifflin.
• Bird of Paradise: The Colourful Career of the First Mrs Robinson (2007). Bantam.
• Elizabeth and Leicester: The Truth about the Virgin Queen and the Man She Loved (2008). Penguin Books.
• The Ring and the Crown: A History of Royal Weddings (2011). Hutchinson.
• Breakfast at Tiffany's Companion: The Official 50th Anniversary Companion (2011). Rizzoli International Publications.
• The Girl in the Mirror (2012). William Collins.
• Blood Sisters: The Women Behind the Wars of the Roses (2012). Harper Press.
• Fabulous Frocks (2013). Pavilion.
• Game of Queens: The Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe (2016). Basic Books.
• The Story of Beatrix Potter (2016) United Kingdom: Pavilion Books.
• Elizabeth: Queen and Crown (2017). Pavilion.
• The Queen's Mary: In the Shadows of Power... (2018). Sharpe Books.
• Vita & Virginia: The Lives and Love of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West (2018). National Trust.
• The Tudors in Love: The Courtly Code Behind the Last Medieval Dynasty (2021). Oneworld Publications.

External links

• • Web site: Sarah Gristwood. Sarah Gristwood website
• Web site: Sarah Gristwood Interview. Daily Mail History Hub. 29 June 2017. 16 February 2018.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Sarah Gristwood. HarperCollins. 16 February 2018.
2. http://the-history-girls.blogspot.com/2015/05/cabinet-of-curiosities-taxidermy-by.html Cabinet of Curiosities: Taxidermy by Sarah Gristwood
3. Web site: Sarah Gristwood. 16 February 2018.
4. News: Review: Biography: Arbella, England's Lost Queen by Sarah Gristwood. Sharpe, Kevin. 2 February 2003. The Sunday times. 16 February 2018.
5. News: Women of Thrones. Dunant, Sarah. Sarah Dunant. New York Times. 2 December 2016. 16 February 2008.
6. Web site: Sarah Gristwood. IMDb. 17 February 2018.
7. News: Skeletons in the Closet. 6 March 2003. Evening Standard. 16 February 2018.
8. News: Shoard . Catherine . Derek Malcolm, longtime Guardian film critic, dies aged 91 . 16 July 2023 . The Guardian . 16 July 2023.