Anne, second queen of Henry VIII

RH 's father, William Lok or Locke (1480-1550), had been married before and he was twice more married after the death of his second wife, Katherine (Cook)—who bore him nine children—and whose protestant faith he...

She was commissioned to produce this work for the occasion of Queen Caroline's trial, by the publishers T. and J. Allman . Its frontispiece shows Caroline flanked by portraits of Queen Elizabeth , but...

In her preface SJH quotes a Blackwood's article on Hemans which says the many contemporary women with cultivated minds have made it highly feminine to be intelligent. Hale herself somewhat puzzlingly adds that the Bible...

This novel, a third-person narrative, opens arrestingly—It was a cold, and dreary evening, in the month of October 1548—on the French Count d'Almaile's discovery of a female skeleton in her coffin...

FNBA 's father, Thomas Manners , first Earl of Rutland, was one of the peers who tried Anne Boleyn for treason. He went on to hold various distinguished official positions. He died on 20 September...

Henry Fielding published a fantasy-fiction, A Journey from This World to the Next, whose last chapter, Anne Boleyn 's account of her life, is probably by SF .

Elizabeth's mother, Anne Boleyn , a country gentleman's daughter, attracted the king during his first marriage by her beauty and personality. Her few surviving letters indicate high intelligence and language skills. She was executed on...

Elizabeth's mother, Anne Boleyn , knew Marguerite well and owned a copy of her book, which may have been used for this translation. Elizabeth writes merely that she has translated this little book out of...

SB published another work of historical fiction, The Star of the Court; or, The Maid of Honour and Queen of England, Anne Boleyn

Anne Boleyn , thus introduced as an example of what woman ought not to be, is portrayed as a victim both of her own misguided genius and of the evil passions of a sensual man...

EOB turned to history in her next biography, Memoirs of the Life of Anne Boleyn, mother of Elizabeth I .

MCA made what seems to be her first appearance in English, with The Novels of Elizabeth Queen of England , Containing the history of Queen Ann of Bullen (which represented a part of her Nouvelles...

She said she designed this genre as a new one: she planned to interlace her material about the manners of the age, the state of literature, arts, &c. with as slender a thread of political...