"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. Carolyn PhelanĬopyright © American Library Association. A rewarding addition to a popular series. Illustrations, also grouped at the end, include black-and-white reproductions of period paintings and engravings, photos of places and artifacts, and a map. The book ends with an epilogue, a historical note, a Capet-Plantagenet family tree, and a list of characters (some historical, some fictional). The characterizations of the lively Eleanor, her protective grandmother, and her troubled father are all convincing within their time and place. In this fictional diary, Eleanor records a wide variety of events and displays myriad emotions while creating an informative backdrop of the social and religious customs of the twelfth century. 4 Total Resources View Text Complexity Discover Like Books. Author of the best-selling Royal Diaries title, CLEOPATRA VII, Kristiana Gregory. The story begins in 1136, when Eleanor is a disobedient 13-year-old in her father's ducal palace, and ends in 1137, when she marries and becomes queen of France. by Kristiana Gregory Part of the Royal Diaries Series. Gregory finds a near-perfect individual for the Royal Diaries series in Eleanor of Aquitaine and does her subject justice.
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