女主柄國之路

Helen Castor, She-wolves: The women who ruled England before Elizabeth. (London: Faber & Faber, 2010)

Matilda Imperatrix
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Isabella of France

Margaret of Anjou
(p.322) She had also discovered that neither power nor wealth could be taken for granted. Rights, it seemed, had to be fought for, possession asserted rather than assumed.