Editing Elizabeth Woodville (section)

==In literature==
One of only three lyric poems in [[Middle English]] ascribed to a woman author,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Barratt |first=Alexandra |title=Women's Writing in Middle English |publisher=Pearson Education |year=2010 |isbn=9781408204146 |edition=2nd |location=Harlow, England |pages=282}}</ref> alongside "An Anchoress' Hymn to the Virgin" and "Eleanor Percy's Prayer", "My heart is set upon a lusty pin"<ref name="FeuillesMortes2021"/> is attributed to one "Queen Elizabeth", sometimes thought to have been Elizabeth Woodville (although the author is also argued<ref name="FeuillesMortes2021">{{cite web |author=May (FeuillesMortes) |date=2021-06-30 |title=Where does the "my heart is set upon a lusty pin" quote come from? |website=richmond-rex.tumblr.com |url=https://richmond-rex.tumblr.com/post/655405786792656896/where-does-the-my-heart-is-set-upon-a-lusty-pin |archive-url=https://archive.today/20220129202035/https://richmond-rex.tumblr.com/post/655405786792656896/where-does-the-my-heart-is-set-upon-a-lusty-pin |archive-date=2022-01-29 |access-date=2022-01-29}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=Jean R. Brink |chapter=Responses to a Pedagogy Survey |title=Attending to Women in Early Modern England |editor1=Betty S. Travitsky |editor2=Adele F. Seeff |publisher=University of Delaware Press |location=Newark |year=1994 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n7bMfOlgEgoC&pg=PA321 |page=321|isbn=9780874135190 }}</ref> to have been her daughter, [[Elizabeth of York]]). This hymn to [[Venus (goddess)|Venus]], found in one single manuscript,<ref>{{cite book |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cteyEYBjdTsC&pg=PA227 |title=A Companion to the Middle English Lyric |editor1=Thomas Gibson Duncan |publisher=Boydell & Brewer |year=2005
|isbn=9781843840657 |author=Sarah Stanbury |chapter=Middle English Religious Lyrics |pages=227–41}}</ref> is a complex six-stanza poem<ref>{{cite book |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GtPSOP3jvLYC&pg=PA195 |first=Sarah |last=McNamer |chapter=Lyrics and romances |title=The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women's Writing |editor1-last=Wallace |editor1-first=David |editor2-first=Carolyn |editor2-last=Dinshaw |publisher=Cambridge UP |year=2003 |isbn=9780521796385 |pages=195–209}}</ref> with rhyme scheme ABABBAA, an "elaboration of the [[sestina]]",<ref>{{cite book |title=Women's Writing in Middle English |editor1-first=Alexandra |editor1-last=Barratt |pages=275–77 |publisher=Longman |location=New York |isbn=0-582-06192-X |year=1992}}</ref> in which the seventh line of each stanza is the same as its first, and the six unique lines of the first stanza provide the first lines for each of the poem's six stanzas.

=== Non-fiction ===

* ''Elizabeth Woodville: Mother of the Princes in the Tower'' (2002) by [[David Baldwin (historian)|David Baldwin]]
* ''Elizabeth Wydeville: The Slandered Queen'' (2005) by Arlene Okerlund
* ''The Women of the Cousins' War'' (2011) by [[Philippa Gregory]], David Baldwin and Michael Jones. The book deals with [[Jacquetta of Luxembourg]] (mother of Elizabeth Woodville) (chapter written by Philippa Gregory), Elizabeth Woodville (chapter written by David Baldwin), and [[Lady Margaret Beaufort]] (mother of Elizabeth Woodville's son-in-law King Henry VII) (chapter written by Michael Jones) 
* ''Elizabeth Woodville'' (2013) by David MacGibbon
* ''The Woodvilles: The Wars of the Roses and England's Most Infamous Family'' (2013) by [[Susan Higginbotham]]
* ''Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville: A True Romance'' (2016) by Amy Licence
* {{cite book |last1=Hollman |first1=Gemma |title=Royal Witches: Witchcraft and the Nobility in Fifteenth-Century England |date=1 September 2020 |publisher=Pegasus Books |isbn=978-1-64313-395-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S5vsDwAAQBAJ}}

=== Fiction ===

Edward IV's love for his wife is celebrated in sonnet 75 of [[Philip Sidney]]'s ''[[Astrophel and Stella]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poems/astrophel-and-stella-75|title=Astrophel and Stella: 75|work=utoronto.ca}}</ref> (written by 1586, first pub. 1591).

She appears in two of [[Shakespeare]]'s plays: ''[[Henry VI Part 3]]'' (written by 1592), in which she is a fairly minor character, and ''[[Richard III (play)|Richard III]]'' (written approx. 1592), where she has a central role. Shakespeare portrays Elizabeth as a proud and alluring woman in ''Henry VI Part 3''. By ''Richard III,'' she is careworn from having to defend herself against detractors in the court, including her titular brother-in-law, Richard. She spends much of the play bemoaning her fate as family members and supporters of her are killed, including her two young sons. She is one of Richard's cleverest opponents and among the few who see through him from the beginning, though she is mostly powerless to stop him once he murders her allies in the court. Although most modern editions of ''Henry VI Part 3'' and ''Richard III'' call her "Queen Elizabeth" in the stage directions, the original Shakespearean Folio never actually refer to her by name, instead calling her first "Lady Grey" and later simply "Queen".

Novels that feature Elizabeth Woodville as a character include:
* ''[[The Last of the Barons]]'' by [[Edward Bulwer-Lytton]] [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7727 Available online].
* ''[[Dickon (novel)|Dickon]]'' (1929) by [[Marjorie Bowen]].
* ''[[The Daughter of Time]]'' (1951), [[Josephine Tey]]'s classic mystery.
* ''The White Rose'' (1969) by [[Jan Westcott]].
* ''The King's Grey Mare'' (1972) by [[Rosemary Hawley Jarman]], a fictionalised biography of Elizabeth Woodville.
* ''The Woodville Wench'' (published in US as ''The Queen Who Never Was'') (1972) by [[Maureen Peters (novelist)|Maureen Peters]].
* ''The Sunne in Splendour ''(1982) by [[Sharon Kay Penman]].
* ''The Sun in Splendour'' (1982) by [[Jean Plaidy]].
* ''A Secret Alchemy'' (2009) by [[Emma Darwin (novelist)|Emma Darwin]].
* ''[[The White Queen (novel)|The White Queen]]'' (2009) by [[Philippa Gregory]], which borrows [[Rosemary Hawley Jarman]]'s supernatural elements from ''The King's Grey Mare''. Elizabeth Woodville also appears in other novels in Gregory's ''[[Cousins' War]]'' series.
* ''The King's Grace'' (2009) by [[Anne Easter Smith]] The life of Edward IV's illegitimate daughter who spent many years in service of the Dowager Queen.
* ''The Kingmaker's Daughter'' (2012) by [[Philippa Gregory]].
* ''Das Spiel der Könige'', a historical novel in German by [[Rebecca Gablé]].
* ''Bloodline'' (2015) and ''Ravenspur'' (2016), in the "War of Roses" series by [[Conn Iggulden]]
* ''The Last White Rose'' (2022) by [[Alison Weir]].