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What Are You Reading (Jan 2009 edition)?
- SonjaMarie
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[quote=""nona""]that sounds interesting and I have it on my tbb (to be bought) list, what are some historically accurate books on Lady Jane, if you don't mind me asking.[/quote]
Do you mean nonfiction? There aren't that many printed in the last few decades to be honest, most the biographies I have on her date from the 1800s and the early 1900s and aren't very accurate. But Alison Weir's "The Children of Henry VIII" covers Lady Jane and that's fairly accurate.
SM
Do you mean nonfiction? There aren't that many printed in the last few decades to be honest, most the biographies I have on her date from the 1800s and the early 1900s and aren't very accurate. But Alison Weir's "The Children of Henry VIII" covers Lady Jane and that's fairly accurate.
SM
The Lady Jane Grey Internet Museum
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Anna Jacobs' "Calico Road", a classic "Ee, lass" Victorian 'mills and moors' melodrama, set in Lancashire. A satisfying story with all the usual elements, poor but courageous battlers pitted against wicked mill-owners with brutal henchmen, ghosts, a family secret. Will the villians get their come-uppance at he end and the battlers have a HEA ending? Perfect when accompanied by a cup of tea and chocolate biscuits
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[quote=""SonjaMarie""]Do you mean nonfiction? There aren't that many printed in the last few decades to be honest, most the biographies I have on her date from the 1800s and the early 1900s and aren't very accurate. But Alison Weir's "The Children of Henry VIII" covers Lady Jane and that's fairly accurate.
SM[/quote]
thanks, I'll have to read it, I found her story really interesting, and she such a strong girl.
SM[/quote]
thanks, I'll have to read it, I found her story really interesting, and she such a strong girl.
- Vanessa
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- Currently reading: The Farm at the Edge of the World by Sarah Vaughan
- Interest in HF: The first historical novel I read was Katherine by Anya Seton and this sparked off my interest in this genre.
- Favourite HF book: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell!
- Preferred HF: Any
- Location: North Yorkshire, UK
The Summer Book by Tove Jansson.
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Books are mirrors, you only see in them what you already have inside you ~ The Shadow of the Wind
Books are mirrors, you only see in them what you already have inside you ~ The Shadow of the Wind
Finally got hold of a copy of Lion Feuchtwanger's "Josephus', the first volume of his Josephus trilogy about the Jewish historian. It's very well-written and absorbing-- I hadn't actually realised what a large part Josephus himsel played in bringing about the First Jewish- Roman War of 66-73.
Major gripe- this is an old copy obtained through the library interloan service and some despicable previous borrower has felt that their translation is better than the original and written it all over the book in pencil. Grrr!
Also reading and drooling over Christopher Wood's sumptuous (and huge) non-fiction book "Victorian Painting"
Major gripe- this is an old copy obtained through the library interloan service and some despicable previous borrower has felt that their translation is better than the original and written it all over the book in pencil. Grrr!
Also reading and drooling over Christopher Wood's sumptuous (and huge) non-fiction book "Victorian Painting"