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REVISED HISTORY OF A QUEEN
From: Roanoke Times & World News
Date: 20060409
Author:Reviewed by Lee Fitzgerald
ANNE BOLEYN: A New Life of England's Tragic Queen
By Joanna Denny. Da Capo Press. $26.
Samuel Butler is quoted as saying, "Though God cannot alter the past, historians can." This, according to author Joanna Denny, is exactly what has been done to the real story of Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII. Denny has set about to correct impressions left us about this remarkable and tragic figure.
The question is: Was Anne a scheming temptress, guilty of adultery, incest and witchcraft or a victim of a campaign of malicious misinformation? Denny definitely favors the latter. Whichever it ...
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