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"God and Posterity Will Show Me Favor": A Search for the Historical Lady Jane Dudley in Light of Her Later Portrayals

Date of Award Spring 5-2011 Author's School College of Arts & Sciences Degree Name Bachelor of Arts Abstract The sixteen-year-old Lady Jane Dudley, born Grey, was pushed onto the throne for nine days in July 1553, a last-minute effort in retaining a Protestant monarch. She was quickly toppled by the rightful heir, the Catholic Queen Mary I, giving Jane the shortest reign in English history. Shortly thereafter, Jane was beheaded for treason. For the next four and a half centuries, Jane’s story would be told over and over again—vastly more often than her relative insignificance in history would suggest— casting her as a saint, a martyr, a child prodigy, an airheaded girl with little interest in religious or academic matters, an innocent young victim, a heroine of romantic legend, a Victorian role model of meek womanhood, or a religious fanatic. Some of these portrayals are outlandish; nearly all at least stretch the truth. Generally, fictional and “historical” accounts of Jane have said more about the era in which they were written than they have about Jane.