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The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn

By Eric Ives

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| Paperback | 9781405134637

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Book Description

Anne Boleyn is the most notorious of England's queens, but more famous for her death as an adulterer than for her life. Henry's second wife and mother of Elizabeth I, Anne was the first English queen to be publicly executed. Yet what do we know of the achievements and the legacy of her short reign?IContinue

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Not just a pretty face

The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn: The Most Happy by Eric Ives 480pp, Blackwell, £25 Last year, a bookseller from whom I tried to buy Eric Ives's great biography of Anne Boleyn told me that Blackwell would be reissuing it shortly. He was wrong - well ... (read full critics)

guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

That woman again

The meteoric rise and swift fall of Anne Boleyn, she of the thousand days, has gripped the imagination even of sober-minded academic historians, Eric Ives describing it as ‘the most romantic, the most scandalous tragedy in English history’. Much of t ... (read full critics)

spectator published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

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2 Reviews

Every Anne Boleyn admirer should read this book. It's accurate, full of historical references, very well structured. If you're interested in knowing the real Anne Boleyn, you have to read it. MASTERPIECE!

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valentina said on Apr 20, 2011 | Add your feedback

This is a superb biography of Anne Boleyn. Painstakingly researched, the evidence for Anne's life - and fall - is meticulously considered and presented. Whilst this is an academic study, it is also a very readable account of this turbulent period. Dispelled are many of the myths, rumours and lies ... (continue)

This is a superb biography of Anne Boleyn. Painstakingly researched, the evidence for Anne's life - and fall - is meticulously considered and presented. Whilst this is an academic study, it is also a very readable account of this turbulent period. Dispelled are many of the myths, rumours and lies surrounding this charismatic character, whose fate was completely unavoidable given the political mess in which Cromwell found himself in 1536.
As many have stated, this must be considered the definitive account of Anne's life, and I cannot recommend it highly enough.

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Gylfinir said on Jan 9, 2009 | Add your feedback