Imprint: Vintage
Published: 03/06/2010
ISBN: 9780712640176
Length: 544 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 34mm x 129mm
Weight: 396g
RRP: £10.99
On 2 May, 1536, in an act unprecedented in English history, Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's second wife, was imprisoned in the Tower of London. On 15 May, she was tried and found guilty of high treason and executed just four days later. Mystery surrounds the circumstances leading up to her arrest - did Henry VIII instruct Thomas Cromwell to fabricate evidence to get rid of her so that he could marry Jane Seymour? Did Cromwell, for reasons of his own, construct a case against Anne and her faction, and then present compelling evidence before the King? Or was Anne, in fact, as guilty as charged?
Never before has there been a book devoted entirely to Anne Boleyn's fall; now in Alison Weir's richly researched and impressively detailed portrait, we have a compelling story of the last days of history's most charismatic, controversial and tragic heroines.
Imprint: Vintage
Published: 03/06/2010
ISBN: 9780712640176
Length: 544 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 34mm x 129mm
Weight: 396g
RRP: £10.99
One of our best popular historians...with an impressive scholarly pedigree in Tudor history
It is testament to Weir's artfulness and elegance as a writer that The Lady in the Tower remains fresh and suspenseful, even though the reader knows what's coming... One of the pleasures of The Lady in the Tower is that it invites the reader into the historiographical process as Weir's emphasis on primary sources allows us to evaluate them alongside her
Weir...knows her sources well. She writes in an engaging way and adopts an even-handed approach
This is vintage Weir: a thrilling episode of history superbly related and treated with penetrating analysis and a great dollop of common sense
The research is exhaustive... It would be hard to imagine a more thorough examination of any comparable historical issue... Weir is to be congratulated on her impartiality and sound judgement