![]() ![]() Weir brings considerable expertise to her portrait of Anne as “a flawed but very human heroine, a woman of great ambition, idealism and courage.” Because Anne spent formative years at the French court, where feminist ideas were debated, Weir chooses to see her as an early feminist, repulsed by the widespread incidence of rape in the royal courts of France and England. While Katherine of Aragon left abundant letters, Anne did not, and testimony about her comes mainly from an ambassador to the court who was hostile to her. Anne is certainly the most famous of those unfortunate women and, as Weir admits in an afterword, the least knowable. Weir ( Katherine of Aragon, 2016, etc.), prolific Tudor historian, biographer, and novelist, offers the second volume in her fictional series about Henry VIII’s six wives, focusing on the outspoken, doomed Anne Boleyn. A notorious Tudor queen is sympathetically imagined. ![]()
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