I've now read Susan James's Catherine Parr biography as well as ANOTHER Catherine Parr biography written a year or two later. The newer one is better written and more interesting than James. And there's too much in James about Catherine's siblings, in my view. However, I give James credit for quoting from Catherine's correspondence with her fourth husband. Oddly, although James claims to be the person who realized that a portrait once thought to be Lady Jane Grey (illustrated on cover) is actually Catherine Parr, she never brings up that topic in her book. I think she should be proud of that little accomplishment in art history.

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