Chapter Five: Anne Boleyn In Nineteenth-century Historical Fiction

chapter five: anne boleyn in nineteenth-century historical fiction

[citation: rosemary sweet, antiquaries: the discovery of the past in eighteenth-century britain (london: hambledon and london, 2004), 2]

[citation: elizabeth fay, romantic medievalism: history and the romantic literary ideal (basingstoke: palgrave macmillan, 2002), 2]

[citation: stephen bann, romanticism and the rise of history (new york: trayne publishers, 1995), 4; 5]

[citation: thea tomaini, the corpse as text: disinterment and antiquarian enquiry, 1700-1900 (woodbridge: the boydell press, 2017), 12]

[additional citation: peter mandler, “revisiting the olden time: popular tudorism in the time of victoria,” in tudorism: historical imagination and the appropriation of the sixteenth century, ed. tatiana c. string and marcus bull (oxford: oxford university press, 2011)]

Dr de Puebla provided a convenient scapegoat for Catherine at all times when the real culprit, apart from Henry VII, was her own father for failing to deliver the dowry. Given Catherine's adoration for Ferdinand [...] blaming Dr de Puebla provided a useful safety valve.

Antonia Fraser

𝙤𝙩𝙩𝙤𝙢𝙖𝙣 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙨: Murad III

Murad III, not satisfied with the girls in the harem, engaged in relationships with women from outside as well. For this reason it was claimed he had 100-130 children while he was alive, most of them dying before him; at his death, he had 49 children, 19 sons and 30 daughters. Moreover, it was stated that seven concubines who were pregnant with his children were thrown in the sea at his death. When Murad died, his concubines and consorts were sent to the Old Palace and were married to statesmen, with a ratio of two concubines per statesman. — M. Çağatay Uluçay, Padişahların Kadınları ve Kızları

In a letter to her father in March [of 1509], Catherine broke down and told him she could no longer combat the petty persecutions of Henry VII. Only recently he had told her he was under no obligation to feed either her or her attendants; he added spitefully that her food was being given to her as alms.

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the daughters of jacquetta of luxembourg and richard woodville, baron rivers

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