Women, Reform and Community in Early Modern England

A study of one of the most influential women of her day has much to reveal about the developments which shaped the English Reformation. Katherine Willoughby, duchess of Suffolk, was one of the highest-ranking noblewomen in sixteenth-century England. She wielded considerable political power in her local community and at court, and her social status and her commitment to religious reform placed her at the centre of the political and religious developments that shaped the English Reformation. By fo