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<p>the Women Who Wed Henry Viii Are Remembered Mainly For The Ways Their Royal Marriages Ended: Divorced, Beheaded, Died, Divorced, Beheaded, Survived. This Book Helps To Restore Full Humanity To These Six Fascinating Women By Applying The Insights Of Feminist Scholarship. Here They Appear Not As Stereotypes, Not Simply As Victims, But As Lively, Intelligent Noblewomen Doing Their Best To Survive In A Treacherous Court. Divorced, Beheaded, Survived Takes A Revisionist Look At 16th-century English Politics (domestic And Otherwise), Reinterpreting The Historical Record In Perceptive New Ways. For Example, It Shows Ann Boleyn Not As A Seductress, But As A Sophisticate Who For Years Politely Suffered What We Would Now Label Royal Sexual Harassment. It Presents Evidence That The Princess Anne Of Cleves, Whom Henry Declared Ugly And Banished From His Bed, Was In Fact A Pretty Woman Who Agreed To The King's Whim As Her Best Hope For Happiness.</p> <h3>booknews</h3> <p>a Fascinating, Revisionist Look At 16th Century English Politics (both Public And Private), Examining The Lives Of Henry Viii's Six Wives As Active Personalities Rather Than Merely As Seductresses, Unattractive Hags, Or Ciph

Author

Karen Lindsey, 1944-

Publisher

Da Capo Press, Incorporated

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9780201608953

Subjects

History, Historical Fiction, Humanities

Rating

4.05 / 5 (1,016 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13