There is the Lofts market- to be supplemented by those with a taste for good biography. This is o novel for collectors of scholarly minutiae, but a stirring tale of human passions violent times. Against his will, his own common sense, Henry found himself bewitched - enthralled by the young girl who was to be known as the Concubine. Here, you can see them all in order (plus the year each book was published). Motives are simplified and made crystal clear to prod the incredible story: Anne, thwarted in her love for Harry Percy of Northumberland fashions her response to the courtship of the King with Wolsey's dethronement in view Henry, sent on having an heir, falls in and out of love with this lure Wolsey, attempting to lease the King, is a sane and sensible interpreter of the thinking of the Pope Catherine is a much wronged lady conveniently dying of grief and Lollards are distinctly in the wind, fanning religious conflicts.- There is little attempt to reproduce udor speech, yet each passage of dialogue is packed with a furious intent. But this was no ordinary woman, no maid-in-waiting to be possessed and discarded by a king. Norah Lofts has written a series of 60 books. Beginning with a half-formulated vow of revenge from a shivering, exiled Anne as she onfides in her servant Emma in a deserted, draughty house, and ending with Emma's rieving search for a decent burial place for her mistress, this is enthralling ficionalized biography. This is the tragic tale of Anne Boleyn by the exceedingly reliable Norah Lofts who dashes off her yarns with nary a misplaced subject or garbled motive.
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