Anne Somerset (historian)

Anne Somerset (born England, 1955) is an English historian and writer.

Biography

Anne Somerset was born in England in 1955, and was educated in London, Gloucestershire, and Kent. She read history at King's College, London, and began her professional career as a research assistant to several historians.^[1] She published her own first book in 1980; it was a popular biography of King William IV, which was reprinted in 1993.^[2] She has gone on to write four further works, all focused on English history, mainly in the Tudor and Stuart periods.

Major works

• The Life and Times of King William IV, London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1980, ISBN 0297832255.
• Elizabeth I, London, St. Martin's Press 1992, ISBN 0312081839.
• Unnatural Murder: Poison at the Court of James I, London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1997, ISBN 0297813102.
• The Affair of the Poisons, London, St. Martin's Press 2004, ISBN 0312330170.
• Ladies in Waiting: From the Tudors to the Present Day, London, Sterling Publishing 2005, ISBN 0753819872.

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