Dr John Stephan Edwards
Independent scholar
2290 South Palm Canyon Drive
Apt 120, Palm Springs
California 92264
Ph: +1 (760) 778-3479
historian[at]somegreymatter.com
Period: 16th – century portraiture
Medium: Painting
Memberships (professional bodies)
North American Conference on British Studies.
Royal Historical Society (Member).
Career summary
PhD, 2007, Tudor-Stuart History, University of Colorado at Boulder.
Areas of interest / research
My PhD thesis was on Lady Jane Grey and is currently being revised for publication as a book.
My extended interests are in women and religion in Tudor England, cultural history, and portraiture of women, with a particular emphasis on portraiture of Jane Grey.
Details of books/publications relating to your work on British portraiture
‘A New Face for the Lady’, History Today 55:12 (December 2005):44–45.
“A New Portrait of Mary Rogers, Lady Harington,” British Art Journal XII:2 (Autumn 2011), 54–57.
“Framing a Life in Portraits: A ‘New’ Portrait of Mary Nevill Fiennes, Lady Dacre,” British Art Journal XIV:2, 14–20.
Portraiture of Lady Jane Grey www.somegreymatter.com/portraitsintro.htm.