Parr’s second book was the first to be published under her own name. Sixty pages in length, it was a collection of vernacular texts selected and assembled by the Queen for personal devotion. Parr was very much in support of her husband’s young Church of England, and her books were all intended to help develop that church. The fact that it was published under her own name was reflective of Henry’s own support of Catherine – it could never have been published without the explicit approval of the king and the archbishop of Canterbury (at that time, that was Thomas Cranmer).
Like its predecessor, this book became a bestseller, and was reprinted a number of times over the next few decades.
