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Anne of Cleves?
Anne of Cleves?
Are there any books about Anne after her marriage to Henry? I checked out a wiki article on her and she seemed to be pretty active in different things.
News, views, and reviews on books and graphic novels for young adult.
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I enjoyed Mavis Cheek's novel, "Amenable Women". It's a past/present story, quite well done.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Amenable-Women- ... 0571238947
"Telegraph" review here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/book ... -head.html
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Amenable-Women- ... 0571238947
"Telegraph" review here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/book ... -head.html
- boswellbaxter
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There's a nonfiction book by Retha Warnicke called, The Marrying of Anne of Cleves:
http://www.amazon.com/Marrying-Anne-Cle ... 0521770378
Elizabeth Norton has one soon-to-be-published about her also, aptly entitled Anne of Cleves. I can't say, though, that I was very impressed by Norton's She-Wolves book. Some really weird errors in the chapter on Isabella of France.
http://www.amazon.com/ANNE-CLEVES-Henry ... =1-1-spell
Oh, and for HF, there's Margaret Campbell Barnes' My Lady of Cleves. It's a bit fanciful, but a fun read.
http://www.amazon.com/Marrying-Anne-Cle ... 0521770378
Elizabeth Norton has one soon-to-be-published about her also, aptly entitled Anne of Cleves. I can't say, though, that I was very impressed by Norton's She-Wolves book. Some really weird errors in the chapter on Isabella of France.
http://www.amazon.com/ANNE-CLEVES-Henry ... =1-1-spell
Oh, and for HF, there's Margaret Campbell Barnes' My Lady of Cleves. It's a bit fanciful, but a fun read.
Susan Higginbotham
Coming in October: The Woodvilles
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Coming in October: The Woodvilles
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- MLE (Emily Cotton)
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- Preferred HF: Currently prefer 1600 and earlier, but I'll read anything that keeps me turning the page.
- Location: California Bay Area
My Lady of Cleeves, by Margaret Campbell Barnes, is excellent. There's a review on the forum by AmyB here.
Excellent. Thank you ladies.
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- Margaret
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Annis has contributed a review of Amenable Women at HistoricalNovels.info. It sounds like a good read for anyone interested in the Tudor era who's gotten a bit tired of the tragic Anne Boleyns and Katherine Howards and is looking for something a bit more humorous and upbeat. I've rather admired Anne of Cleves since I saw the segment on her in the TV series "The Six Wives of Henry VIII."
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