Mistress Anne

by Erickson, Carolly

• ISBN13: 9780312187477
• ISBN10: 0312187475
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-08-01
• Publisher: Griffin

Summary

As Maureen Quilligan wrote in the New York Times Book Review of The First Elizabeth, Anne Boleyn "was a real victim of the sexual scandals her brilliant daughter escaped, and a subject Ms. Erickson's sensitivity to sexual and political nuance should well serve." Indeed, Carolly Erickson could have chosen no more fascinating and appropriate a subject.Alluring and profoundly enigmatic, Anne Boleyn has eluded the grasp of historians for centuries.Through her extraordinarily vivid re-creation of this most tragic chapter in all Tudor History, Carrolly Erickson gives us unprecedented insight into the singuarlity of Anne Boleyn's life, the dark and overwhelming forces that shaped her errant destiny, and the rare, tumultuous times in which she lived.

Author Biography

A Ph.D. in medieval history from Columbia Unviersity led Carolly Erickson to six years as a college professor, then to a career as a full-time writer. She lives in Hawaii.

Table of Contents

Preface	3	(6)
1 "This gentlewoman. Mistress Anne Boleyn"	9	(9)
2 "The lovely freedom of France"	18	(14)
3 "And then was she sent for home again"	32	(11)
4 "The Lord Percy would then resort"	43	(11)
5 "In great estimation and favor"	54	(12)
6 "To kindle the brand of amours"	66	(12)
7 "He knew not how much he might advance her"	78	(10)
8 "God disposeth all things"	88	(12)
9 "The long hid and secret love"	100	(10)
10 "Then began other matters to brew"	110	(13)
11 "The coming of the legation"	123	(11)
12 "Thus went this strange case forward"	134	(18)
13 "The Queen to be removed"	152	(12)
14 "The foolish communication of people"	164	(11)
15 "To pass the seas"	175	(11)
16 "Till she was great with child"	186	(10)
17 "His most dear and wellbeloved wife Queen Anne"	196	(11)
18 "The Queen was delivered"	207	(11)
19 "O wavering and newfangled multitude!"	218	(10)
20 "The desire of wilful princes"	228	(11)
21 "O madness, O foolish desire, O fond hope"	239	(11)
22 "If eyes be not blind"	250	(11)
Notes	261	(10)
Select Bibliography	271	(6)
Index	277