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Katherine Study Guide

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by Anya Seton
About 95 pages (28,584 words)
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Katherine Study Guide consists of approx. 95 pages of summaries and analysis on Katherine by Anya Seton. Browse the literature study guide below:

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Katherine by Anya Seton is the story of Katherine Roet. The story covers her life from the year 1366 through 1396, her forced marriage to Sir Hugh Swynford, and her enduring love affair with John of Gaunt, the powerful Duke of Lancaster. Katherine's mother died in childbirth and her father, shortly after being knighted, was killed in battle. While her older sister Philippa Roet was assigned to be a courtier in service to the queen, young Katherine was sent by the queen to an obscure Catholic convent to be raised by nuns. As a teenager, Katherine chooses, eagerly, to leave the convent and join her sister at court, unaware of the harshness and complications that she would encounter outside of the protective convent walls. While Philippa will marry the now-famous Geoffrey Chaucer, having... (read more)
      Part One 1336-1337/One
      Part One 1336-1337/Two
      Part One 1336-1337/Three
      Part One 1336-1337/Four
      Part One 1336-1337/Five
      Part One 1336-1337/Six
      Part One 1336-1337/Seven
      Part One 1336-1337/Eight
      Part Two 1369/Nine
      Part Two/Ten
      Part Two/Eleven
      Part Two/Twelve
      Part Three 1371/Thirteen
      Part Three/Fourteen
      Part Three/Fifteen
      Part Four 1376 - 1377/Sixteen
      Part Four/Seventeen
      Part Four/Eighteen
      Part Four/Nineteen
      Part Four/Twenty
      Part Four/Twenty-One
      Part Five 1381/Twenty-Two
      Part Five/Twenty-Three
      Part Five/Twenty-Four
      Part Five/Twenty-Five
      Part Five/Twenty-Six
      Part Five/Twenty-Seven
      Part Five/Twenty-Eight
      Part Five/Twenty-Nine
      Part Six 1387 - 1396/Chapter Thirty
      Part Six/Thirty-One
      Part Six/Thirty-Two
      Afterword

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