The creation of Anne Boleyn : a new look at England's most notorious queen
(2013)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
BIOGRAPHY/ANNE BOLEYN

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Biography & Memoir BIOGRAPHY/ANNE BOLEYN Available

Details

PUBLISHED
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2013]
©2013
DESCRIPTION

xvii, 343 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9780547328188 (cloth), 0547328184 (cloth), 9780547328188, 0547328184 :
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Introduction: The erasure of Anne Boleyn and the creation of "Anne Boleyn" -- Queen interrupted. Why you shouldn't believe everything you've heard about Anne Boleyn ; Why Anne? ; In love (or something like it) ; A perfect storm ; The tower and the scaffold ; Henry: How could he do it? -- Recipes for "Anne Boleyn". Basic historical ingredients ; Anne's afterlives, from she-tragedy to historical romance ; Postwar: domestic trouble in the house of Tudor -- An Anne for all seasons. It's the Anne that makes the movie: "Anne of the Thousand Days" ; The Tudors ; Chapuys' revenge ; Anne gets the last word (for now)