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Three Sisters, Three Queens
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"There is only one bond that I trust: between a woman and her sisters. We never take our eyes off...
Period House Fixtures and Fittings 1300-1900
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England has a wealth of surviving houses from past centuries, be they country mansions or rustic...
Indeterminancy, New Aspect of Form in Instrumental and Electronic Music by John Cage/David Tudor
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Outlandish alchemist and magician, political intelligencer, apocalyptic prophet, and converser with...
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Henry VIII: The Evolution of a Reputation
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No English king is more famous-or infamous! than Henry VIII, popularly celebrated as the formidable...
Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
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Hal B. Walli’s production of “Anne of the Thousand Days” for Universal Pictures recreates from...
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ClareR (5864 KP) rated Jane Seymour: The Haunted Queen in Books
May 3, 2018
This novel looks at how she probably wasn't as innocent as we have always been led to believe. In all honesty, she lived at court - a place where family loyalties and wealth were above all else in importance: she couldn't afford to be an innocent.
I like the Jane that Weir portrays. She's resilient and cares deeply about her family and HER Queen (Katherine of Aragon). I really liked this book and all of the courtly intrigues: Tudor England has always fascinated me. It was such a sad end for Jane, and the authors extended notes at the end really explained well what she and some experts thought had really happened to her and why she died (heres a clue: it wasn't childbirth). I will be going back to the first two books in this series to read about Katherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn in preparation for Katherine Howard (wife #4 - and that should be a good one!!).