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- catalog abstract "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.".
- catalog contributor b7365442.
- catalog coverage "Great Britain History Henry VIII, 1509-1547 Biography.".
- catalog created "c1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "c1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1995.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-221) and index.".
- catalog description "The kingmaker -- The Daughter of Spain -- Married Life -- The Great Whore -- The Court of Two Queens -- Anna Sans Tete -- The Vessel -- The Flanders Mare -- The Rose With A Thorn -- The Clerk Both King and Queen.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "xxix, 231 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Divorced, beheaded, survived.".
- catalog identifier "0201608952".
- catalog isFormatOf "Divorced, beheaded, survived.".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "c1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley Pub.,".
- catalog relation "Divorced, beheaded, survived.".
- catalog spatial "England".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain History Henry VIII, 1509-1547 Biography.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog subject "941.05/2/092 B 20".
- catalog subject "DA333.A2 L56 1995".
- catalog subject "Feminism.".
- catalog subject "Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547 Marriage.".
- catalog subject "Marriages of royalty and nobility Great Britain History 16th century.".
- catalog subject "Queens Great Britain Biography.".
- catalog subject "Women England History Renaissance, 1450-1600.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The kingmaker -- The Daughter of Spain -- Married Life -- The Great Whore -- The Court of Two Queens -- Anna Sans Tete -- The Vessel -- The Flanders Mare -- The Rose With A Thorn -- The Clerk Both King and Queen.".
- catalog title "Divorced, beheaded, survived : a feminist reinterpretation of the wives of Henry VIII / Karen Lindsey.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".