Oliver Cromwell's Wife and Daughters

Not Just the Tudors

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🗓️ 24 February 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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How can women be reinstated into the narrative of history when their presence is only faintly attested to in the remaining sources? How can fiction help us in imagining their lives? Is it legitimate to write fictionalised versions of people who really lived? In this edition of Not Just the Tudors, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb addresses these and other questions with Dr. Miranda Malins, a novelist and historian who specialises in the life and career of Oliver Cromwell, his family, and the politics of the era. Her new novel, The Rebel Daughter is a gripping evocation of the Civil War, and the hidden stories of women at the heart of power.

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0:00.0	How do we write women into history when their presence is only faintly attested to by the remaining
0:11.5	sources? How can fiction help us in imagining their lives? Is it legitimate to write fictionalised
0:18.8	versions of real people? Why does the excitement of the British Civil War not seem to grip people
0:25.2	as the tutors do? These are questions that we address in today's podcast. My guest is Dr Miranda
0:33.2	Mailins, a writer and historian specialising in the history of Oliver Cromwell, his family,
0:39.0	and the politics of the Interregnum period following the Civil Wars. Her PhD is from the University
0:44.6	of Cambridge and she continues to speak at conferences and publish journal articles and book reviews.
0:50.0	She is also a trustee of the Cromwell Association and works as a commercial sister in the city.
0:56.1	And as if that weren't enough to fill her time, she began writing historical novels on
1:01.2	the Turnity Leaf, which is impressive as I spent my in Blirriide and covered in vomit.
1:06.9	And today we're going to be talking about the research behind her recent second novel,
1:11.2	The Rebel Daughter, which is published by Orion.
1:20.2	Miranda Mailins, it's wonderful to welcome you to not just the tutors. Thank you so much for joining me.
1:25.9	Thank you so much for having me, Susanna. It's wonderful to be here with you.
1:29.3	So this is very exciting. This is the second book in a series. The first was the Puritan
1:34.4	Princess, which I've read, but can you recap for those who are joining the series and might be
1:40.1	just picking up volume two, The Rebel Daughter? Of course. So yes, there are two books now in this
1:45.3	series and they focus on the women of Oliver Cromwell's family. Oliver Cromwell being the
1:52.2	less familiar Cromwell to your Tudor fan listeners. I assume that Thomas. But yes, great, great, great,
1:58.7	great nephew of Thomas. And the books tell the story of his rise through the 1640s, through the
2:05.1	Civil Wars and eventually to his becoming Lord Protector, which was effectively King or head of
2:11.6	state, but told through the eyes of his daughters. The Puritan Princess is told through the eyes of
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