Lady Jane Grey: an Interview with Dr. John Stephan Edwards

This is a re-upload of our recent episode with Dr. Edwards. We had some audio issues with the episode. We were able to slightly improve it through an editing software a friend recommended. I will leave both versions of the episode up.

Description of the episode: Whether portrayed as a martyr for the Protestant faith or as a paragon of Victorian virtue, the story of Lady Jane Grey, or Queen Jane, has fascinated the popular imagination for over five centuries. Dr. J. Stephan Edwards joins me on this episode of the podcast to discuss where history ends and where myth begins, and vice versa, in regard to Jane's life and history.

Jane's story, against the backdrop of Tudor England and the tumultuous time between religious parties, continues to fascinate many though actual scholarship on her is few and far in between. I am honored to have had Dr. Edwards on here to discuss his work and research over the years, and to bring a more scholarly angle to the treatment of Jane's story. Dr. Edwards is the host of somegreymatter.com and is the author of the books A Queen of a New Invention: Portraits of Lady Jane Grey Dudley, England's Nine Days Queen and Lady Jane Grey's Prayer Book: British Library Harley Manuscript 2342 both from Old John Publishing. He was the consultant on the recent three-part docu-drama series England's Forgotten Queen: the Life and Death of Lady Jane Grey which we discuss parts of in the podcast.