The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn: A Novel
- ISBN-10
- 1628724544
- ISBN-13
- 9781628724547
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 274
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011-11-21
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Author
- Robin Maxwell
Description
The first novel in the acclaimed Elizabethan Quartet: “Wonderfully juicy...Maxwell brings all of bloody Tudor England vividly to life.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) One was queen for a thousand days; one for over forty years. Both were passionate, headstrong women, loved and hated by Henry VIII. Yet until the discovery of the secret diary, Anne Boleyn and her daughter, Elizabeth I, had never really met . . . Anne was the second of Henry’s six wives, doomed to be beloved, betrayed, and beheaded. When Henry fell madly in love with her upon her return from an education at the lascivious French court, he was already a married man. While his passion for Anne was great enough to rock the foundation of England and of all Christendom, in the end he forsook her for another love, schemed against her, and ultimately had her sentenced to death. But unbeknownst to the king, Anne had kept a diary. At the beginning of Elizabeth’s reign, it is pressed into her hands. In reading it, the young queen discovers a great deal about her much-maligned mother: Anne’s fierce determination, her hard-won knowledge about being a woman in a world ruled by despotic men, and her deep-seated love for the infant daughter taken from her shortly after her birth. In the journal’s pages, Elizabeth finds an echo of her own dramatic life as a passionate young woman at the center of England’s powerful male establishment, and with the knowledge gained from them, makes a resolution that will change the course of history . . . “Maxwell is one of the most popular—and one of the best—historical novelists currently mining the rich vein of Tudor history.” —Booklist
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