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From Betrayed Wife to Betraying Wife: Re-writing Katherine of Aragon as Catalina in Philippa Gregory’s The Constant Princess

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From Betrayed Wife to Betraying Wife: Re-writing Katherine of Aragon as Catalina in Philippa Gregory’s The Constant Princess. / Archer, B.
Imagining Gender in Biographical Fiction. ed. / Julia Novak; Caitríona Ní Dhúill. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. p. 135-155 (Palgrave Studies in Life Writing).

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Archer, B 2022, From Betrayed Wife to Betraying Wife: Re-writing Katherine of Aragon as Catalina in Philippa Gregory’s The Constant Princess. in J Novak & C Ní Dhúill (eds), Imagining Gender in Biographical Fiction. Palgrave Studies in Life Writing, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, pp. 135-155. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09019-6_5

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Archer, B. (2022). From Betrayed Wife to Betraying Wife: Re-writing Katherine of Aragon as Catalina in Philippa Gregory’s The Constant Princess. In J. Novak, & C. Ní Dhúill (Eds.), Imagining Gender in Biographical Fiction (pp. 135-155). (Palgrave Studies in Life Writing). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09019-6_5

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Archer B. From Betrayed Wife to Betraying Wife: Re-writing Katherine of Aragon as Catalina in Philippa Gregory’s The Constant Princess. In Novak J, Ní Dhúill C, editors, Imagining Gender in Biographical Fiction. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. 2022. p. 135-155. (Palgrave Studies in Life Writing). doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-09019-6_5

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Archer, B. / From Betrayed Wife to Betraying Wife : Re-writing Katherine of Aragon as Catalina in Philippa Gregory’s The Constant Princess. Imagining Gender in Biographical Fiction. editor / Julia Novak ; Caitríona Ní Dhúill. Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. pp. 135-155 (Palgrave Studies in Life Writing).

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