9:03 pm
January 9, 2010
I just received a copy of Elizabeth Norton's Anne Boleyn – In Her Own Words & The Words of Those Who Knew Her. It looks excellent – less a straight biography and more of a collection of primary and secondary sources such as Henry VIII's love letters, extracts from Cavendish's Life of Wolsey, George Wyatt's Life of Queen Anne, Chapuy's dispatches and Anne's own letters amongst others, some of which haven't been printed in decades.
I've only flicked through it so far and to read it cover-to-cover would certainly be a challenge but it it really looks like an amazing resource on Anne, especially if you were considering writing your own book!
10:13 pm
February 8, 2011
4:48 am
June 7, 2010
9:47 pm
January 9, 2010
It has some good photos of the tombs of Anne's female ancestors too, though for some reason that Holbein sketch of the woman in the furred nightdress and coif was included too and labeled as Anne. In my mind that drawing has an extremely slim chance of actually being Anne so I wish people would stop including in books on her!
4:31 am
November 18, 2010