- Fiction, History, Queens, Historical Fiction
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.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and effortless.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- effortlessdemanding
- rawmeticulous
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About the book
- Author
- Eleanor Burford
- First published
- November 1991
- Pages
- 542
- Publisher
- Hale, Three Rivers Press, Putnam / Penguin Publishing Group
- Editions
- 21
- Language
- Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9780330201544
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Eleanor Alice Burford was born on September 01, 1906 in Kensington, London. Her father, Joseph Burford, was something of an odd-job man, with no steady profession, but he quickly passed on his great love of books to his young daughter. She was an avid reader from the age of four onwards. In her early twenties, she married a leather merchant, George Percival Hibbert, who shared her love of books and reading. Eleanor Burford was one of the preeminent English authors of historical fiction for most of the twentieth century. She used eight pennames during her career and many of her readers under one penname never suspected her other identities. In 1941, she began signing her novels with her maide
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