Anna, Duchess of Cleves
Title | Anna, Duchess of Cleves PDF eBook |
Author | Heather R. Darsie |
Publisher | Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | 398 |
Release | 2019-04-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1445677113 |
A fresh look at Anne of Cleves’ life as a German noblewoman, and the Continental politics that affected her marriage. Did the doomed union really cause the fall and execution of Thomas Cromwell?
Anne of Cleves
Title | Anne of Cleves PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah-Beth Watkins |
Publisher | John Hunt Publishing |
Total Pages | 161 |
Release | 2018-10-26 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1785359053 |
Anne of Cleves left her homeland in 1539 to marry the king of England. She was not brought up to be a queen, yet out of many possible choices she was the bride Henry VIII chose as his fourth wife. But, from their first meeting the king decided he liked her not and sought an immediate divorce. After just six months their marriage was annulled, leaving Anne one of the wealthiest women in England. This is the story of Anne's marriage to Henry, how the daughter of Cleves survived him and her life afterwards. The latest in the series of popular Tudor biographies from Sarah-Beth Watkins, author of Lady Katherine Knollys: The Unacknowledged Daughter of King Henry VIII
Anne of Cleves
Title | Anne of Cleves PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth Norton |
Publisher | Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | 298 |
Release | 2009-10-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1445606771 |
The first major biography of Henry VIII least favourite wife - but the one who outlived them all.
The Book of Hours of Catherine of Cleves
Title | The Book of Hours of Catherine of Cleves PDF eBook |
Author | John Plummer |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 136 |
Release | 1964 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
Children of the House of Cleves
Title | Children of the House of Cleves PDF eBook |
Author | Heather R. Darsie |
Publisher | Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | 480 |
Release | 2023-06-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1445699435 |
The first book to look at the lives of Anna of Cleves’ siblings, particularly her powerful brother Wilhelm V and her elder sister Sybylla, and their interactions with the Holy Roman Empire, England, and France, which had a significant impact on the Reformation.
The Creation of Anne Boleyn
Title | The Creation of Anne Boleyn PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Bordo |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | 448 |
Release | 2013-04-09 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0547999526 |
This illuminating history examines the life and many legends of the 16th century Queen who was executed by her husband, King Henry VIII. Part biography, part cultural history, The Creation of Anne Boleyn is a fascinating reconstruction of Anne’s life and a revealing look at her afterlife in the popular imagination. Why is her story so compelling? Why has she inspired such extreme reactions? Was she the flaxen-haired martyr of Romantic paintings or the raven-haired seductress of twenty-first-century portrayals? (Answer: neither.) But the most provocative question of all concerns Anne’s death: How could Henry order the execution of a once beloved wife? Drawing on scholarship and critical analysis, Bordo probes the complexities of one of history’s most infamous relationships. She then demonstrates how generations of polemicists, biographers, novelists, and filmmakers have imagined and re-imagined Anne: whore, martyr, cautionary tale, proto “mean girl,” feminist icon, and everything in between. In The Creation of Anne Boleyn, Bordo steps off the well-trodden paths of Tudoriana to tease out the human being behind the competing mythologies, paintings, and on-screen portrayals.
Murder Most Royal
Title | Murder Most Royal PDF eBook |
Author | Jean Plaidy |
Publisher | Crown |
Total Pages | 520 |
Release | 2006-01-24 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0307345394 |
One powerful king. Two tragic queens. In the court of Henry VIII, it was dangerous for a woman to catch the king’s eye. Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard were cousins. Both were beautiful women, though very different in temperament. They each learned that Henry’s passion was all-consuming–and fickle. Sophisticated Anne Boleyn, raised in the decadent court of France, was in love with another man when King Henry claimed her as his own. Being his mistress gave her a position of power; being his queen put her life in jeopardy. Her younger cousin, Catherine Howard, was only fifteen when she was swept into the circle of King Henry. Her innocence attracted him, but a past mistake was destined to haunt her. Painted in the rich colors of Tudor England, Murder Most Royal is a page-turning journey into the lives of two of the wives of the tempestuous Henry VIII. Look for the Reading Group Guide at the back of this book. Also available as an ebook.