6/29/2023 0 Comments She wolves by helen castor![]() ![]() ![]() Upon the face of the whole earth, is most detestable and damnable.” Unluckily for Knox, 1558 was the very year in which a Protestant woman succeeded her Catholic sister on the English throne. Roman Catholic Queen Mary from his Genevan exile in 1558, believed he spoke for all Protestant men when he called women “a monstrous regiment” that, “among all enormities that do this day abound It’s certain that John Knox, hurling imprecations at England’s fervently ![]() With a paper crown) that she was a “she-wolf” - and one worse, by far, than any of the four-legged variety. It’s possible that the doomed Duke of York was voicing the view of Shakespeare himself when he informed Margaret of Anjou (Henry VI’s avenging queen, preparing to plunge a dagger into the usurping duke’s heart before mocking his corpse ![]()
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