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The Fifth Queen (1908)

by Ford Madox Ford(Favorite Author)

3.46 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0307744914 (ISBN13: 9780307744913)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Vintage

review 1: Perhaps the perfect historical novel. Utterly believable, unlike the tons of Tudor porn we have been subjected to since Ford wrote this. This Kat Howard is very different from the caricatures of popular culture. Ford presents her as educated, articulate, passionately committed to her religious faith, and innocent of the misdeeds attributed to her by her enemies. The 16th century has never been more alive to the reader than in this masterpiece.
review 2: This book is Ford Maddox's take on Henry VIII's Fifth Wife Katherine Howard. The beginning of the book did not pull me into the story at all. I was expecting more of an accurate tale of when she was at her Grandmothers house, but it starts with her and her cousin Thomas Culpepper. The inaccuracy of the beginning... more of this book made me uninterested but once I took it more as a novel and less of an accurate history story I began to enjoy my reading of this book more. I know that Maddox tried to stay true to the language of the time but all the 'ye's' really bothered me. That is just my personal opinion. Overall I enjoyed this book as a novel but not one for historical accuracy of Katherine Howard's life. less

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