[quote=""cw gortner""]
I admire PG's skill, tenacity and success, but, for me, her claim to be revisionist and feminist doesn't show, not when she portrays openly ambitious and sexual women, like Anne Boleyn, as amoral, or as in the case of Elizabeth Woodville, as a witch. This is not revisionist, in my opinion: it's tried-and-true stereotype. Women as sluts, as witches, as scheming temptresses. Honestly, what's new there?
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exactly! someone finally said it!
I was reading the part in TOQ where Mary is explaining that when she says 'no' to Bothwell, she means 'yes' and thinking: some feminist heroine!
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[quote=""aessea1001""]Just wondering, has anyone read this one? I recently bought it, (although I had to special-order it from my local Barnes&Noble), and I've read the first 50-something pages...I have to say it's pretty good so far. Maybe this book's not very common in the States, (I'm guessing/assuming?) but I'm wondering nonetheless.
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You aroused my interest so I have just ordered the book! Thanks for the inspiration - I'll get back to you when I've read it.

You aroused my interest so I have just ordered the book! Thanks for the inspiration - I'll get back to you when I've read it.
I know I'm in the minority here, but I loved this one and it's one of my favourite Gregory reads. I read it as a historical supernatural and was slightly creeped out.
Les proz e les vassals
Souvent entre piez de chevals
Kar ja li coard nI chasront
'The Brave and the valiant
Are always to be found between the hooves of horses
For never will cowards fall down there.'
Histoire de Guillaume le Mareschal
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Souvent entre piez de chevals
Kar ja li coard nI chasront
'The Brave and the valiant
Are always to be found between the hooves of horses
For never will cowards fall down there.'
Histoire de Guillaume le Mareschal
www.elizabethchadwick.com
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I bought it thinking it would be a enthralling read of witchcraft, midwifes and the Tudor reformation. It began that way, but then it ended up being a sordid tale of threesomes, avarice and wax!
Spoilers Below!
One thing that I remembered being annoyed about was that all the female characters ended up dying while the male ones lived!
A better book about medieval midwives is The Love Knot!
Spoilers Below!
One thing that I remembered being annoyed about was that all the female characters ended up dying while the male ones lived!
A better book about medieval midwives is The Love Knot!
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[quote=""SCW""]I bought it thinking it would be a enthralling read of witchcraft, midwifes and the Tudor reformation. It began that way, but then it ended up being a sordid tale of threesomes, avarice and wax!
Spoilers Below!
One thing that I remembered being annoyed about was that all the female characters ended up dying while the male ones lived!
A better book about medieval midwives is The Love Knot![/quote]
That was the big disappointment for me. After all Alys had gone through I couldn't imagine she would surrender so easily. Maybe PG just needed a quick finish for the book?
Spoilers Below!
One thing that I remembered being annoyed about was that all the female characters ended up dying while the male ones lived!
A better book about medieval midwives is The Love Knot![/quote]
That was the big disappointment for me. After all Alys had gone through I couldn't imagine she would surrender so easily. Maybe PG just needed a quick finish for the book?
Wendy K. Perriman
Fire on Dark Water (Penguin, 2011)
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http://www.FireOnDarkWater.com
Fire on Dark Water (Penguin, 2011)
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http://www.FireOnDarkWater.com