She gives the general reader fresh access to Elizabeth's mind and ideas, her wit, verve, eloquence, circumlocution, and formidable learning. OBSERVER A new approach to historical biography - she has studied both the original sources and recent works of scholarship and has a thorough understanding of the period. SUNDAY TIMES Until Maria Perry began her exploration of Elizabeth's papers, this vivid raw material had only been partially studied. From it, a fresh portrait of Elizabeth emerges, one which is often more cohesive and less baffling than some offered by her biographers. The dangers and insecurities of her early life, her sense of divine protection, her formidable education, all stand out as crucial elements in the formation of her character; but behind the acquired circumspection lies a personality of great warmth and spirit. On the teasing questions of love, marriage and virginity, the letters and speeches offer oblique comment; it seems certain that Robert Dudley was her one true love, and that she felt his second marriage to Lettice Knollys as a bitter betrayal. MARIA PERRY is a graduate of Somerville College, Oxford, where she read history.
A person that Jeffrey care about is under the weather. The brothers decide to make their friend a special gift to help him feel better. While making the special gift, they discover and share a creation that is rich, delightful, and full of wonder.
Although Henry VIII's sisters Margaret and Mary were once considered more important than his six wives, they received less of the contemporary limelight. Maria Perry's groundbreaking biography brilliantly illuminates the amazing lives, characters, and influence of these two remarkable women. She also includes new evidence that radically alters our understanding of Tudor history--including a revealing study of Henry's illegitimate son, the Duke of Richmond.
Five Senses- a Beautiful work of art and words! a fascinating collection of reflections, poems and artwork by the author spotlights the five human senses, which are often taken for granted: sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste. Maria Perry's book is a fusion of A thought provoking personal persuasive informational and inspirational and inspiring book for the young and adult readers.
Henry VIII's sisters, neglected by generations of historians, affected the lives of their contemporaries much more forcefully than did any of their brother's famous six wives. In The Sisters of Henry VIII, Maria Perry brings history alive by examining the lives of these extraordinary women and their influence on Europe in the Tudor Age. Margaret became queen of Scotland at age thirteen; family members arranged beautiful Mary's betrothal to the aging king of France when she was twelve. But both women chose their second husbands for love: Margaret married and divorced twice after Henry's advancing armies slaughtered her first husband and kidnapped her children; Mary risked execution by proposing to the handsome duke of Suffolk. Groundbreaking in both depth and scope, Perry's work rescues two remarkable princesses from the shadows of history and offers a fresh interpretation of a royal family and an era sure to fascinate readers of Alison Weir and Antonia Fraser.
By the author of The Word of a Prince, this is a humorous account of a species, a district and a way of life. Maria Perry strolls affectionately through three centuries of the eccentricities of the inhabitants of Knightsbridge.
People are born with a soul and the innate capacity to play. Depth-oriented therapists believe in the healing powers and wisdom of the soul. Drama therapists believe in the exploratory learning that embodied play offers. Depth-oriented drama therapy seeks to combine the wisdom of both fields. Employing both hermeneutic and alchemical hermeneutic methodologies, this paper puts drama and depth therapies in dialogue with one another in order to produce a more effective, embodied, and soulful form of therapy. The author also shares her process of finding a deeper meaning in her professional practice as a drama therapist. C. G. Jung saw playing as a primary way of personifying the unconscious; this thesis shows how the dramatic play of improvisation and role-playing can be understood therapeutically. The author outlines specific therapeutic interventions and explains the positive clinical implications of utilizing depth-oriented drama therapy.
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