Ellis deserves praise for her extensive research and it is not her fault that she has not been well served by her editor, who should easily have spotted and could just as easily have remedied many of the book’s weaknesses. It is also unfortunate for Ellis that Lorna Gibb’s highly acclaimed biography of Stanhope, Queen of the East, appeared only in 2005, although Ellis herself seems unaccountably unaware of the existence of such a book, failing to mention it anywhere.
On her own website she states: ‘Highly specific considerations dominate the writing of a biography, where every statement and description must be buttressed by established fact.’ It is therefore startling to find, on the same site, her claim that her own book is ‘the first full-length contemporary biography’ of Stanhope.
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