Anne Boleyn: Life and Afterlives
Not Just the Tudors
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I Think It's Become a Mainstay of Historical Fiction
The idea that anne boleyn was ahead of her time has become a mainstay, really, of historical fiction. Alison wear comments in the notes to her novel, a king's obsession, she felt compelled to represent anne belina as a kind of proto feminist figure because that is the currently accepted view of her. The negative talk about anne Boleyn after her death is mostly as a hor again, as a person who was sexually active and promiscuous and as a heretic.
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