I agree with you on the dress/cover. Entirely the wrong period. I don't think that is a a small nitpick either, frankly I think that is a bit of an insult to their readers as it is several centuries off. otoh it is a lovely dress (I like that particular style myself)
I know from historical sources Jane Boleyn is often drawn as a bitter and sniping entity, so in that it would appear the author was following what was available. I myself have not ever quite worked out how much was bad press and how much was actually her being spiteful (for real). She was versed in the royal court and survived the Boleyn and later the Howard purge, (you have to give her serious credit for that in political terms) She survived a lot.
You mention a scene with Anne of Cleves and Katherine Howard.. I have no words for that.. nor any idea what she or her editor were smoking.
Haha, I'm glad I'm not the only one bothered by the dress thing. ;D
It's so hard to determine what Jane would have been like. As one of the people who brought about the downfall of Anne Boleyn, I imagine she wasn't too popular with Elizabeth I and historians seeking to please her would have painted Jane in a negative light. Julia Fox's biography was very sympathetic to her, and although I didn't much care for it I think it did a good job of gathering together what information there is about Jane.
Man, when the scene w/ Anne and Katherine came up my brain literally came screeching to a halt. I mean, it was completely out of nowhere!
In all fairness, I don't think it is exactly fair to say she brought Anne's downfall about. It might be much more fair (and I stress might) to say that she saw which way the wind was blowing politically and decided that her husband et al were being obtuse and she wasn't going to go down with this particular ship. She might have married him for love (so the story goes) but in the end he didn't treat her very well. Frankly I think there was mercenary aims at both ends (very few marriages were love matches at either end) and she just realized the political waters were against them and played her hand accordingly. Why be exiled or destitute (or worse) when you might be at least able to live decently
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Well, she certainly didn't do it singlehandedly. I always thought her testimony acted rather like the trigger; by claiming her husband's incestuous acts Jane gave Anne's enemies what they needed to get rid of her. But like you said, she may have just been watching to see where the things were heating up and jumping out before she got burned.
In The Boleyn Wife there's a lovely scene where Jane sleeps with Cromwell and tells him everything she thinks he wants to hear because she's so happy that *somebody* will sex her up. It's just lovely.
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I know from historical sources Jane Boleyn is often drawn as a bitter and sniping entity, so in that it would appear the author was following what was available. I myself have not ever quite worked out how much was bad press and how much was actually her being spiteful (for real). She was versed in the royal court and survived the Boleyn and later the Howard purge, (you have to give her serious credit for that in political terms) She survived a lot.
You mention a scene with Anne of Cleves and Katherine Howard.. I have no words for that.. nor any idea what she or her editor were smoking.
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It's so hard to determine what Jane would have been like. As one of the people who brought about the downfall of Anne Boleyn, I imagine she wasn't too popular with Elizabeth I and historians seeking to please her would have painted Jane in a negative light. Julia Fox's biography was very sympathetic to her, and although I didn't much care for it I think it did a good job of gathering together what information there is about Jane.
Man, when the scene w/ Anne and Katherine came up my brain literally came screeching to a halt. I mean, it was completely out of nowhere!
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In The Boleyn Wife there's a lovely scene where Jane sleeps with Cromwell and tells him everything she thinks he wants to hear because she's so happy that *somebody* will sex her up. It's just lovely.
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