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Alison Weir (1) (1951–)

Autor(a) de The Six Wives of Henry VIII

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About the Author

Alison Weir was born in London, England on July 8, 1951. She received training to be a teacher with a concentration in history from the North Western Polytechnic. Before becoming a full-time writer, she worked as a civil servant and ran her own school for children with learning difficulties from mostrar mais 1991 to 1997. Her first book, Britain's Royal Families, was published in 1989. Her other books include The Six Wives of Henry VIII; Children of England; Eleanor of Aquitaine; Henry VIII: King and Court; Mary, Queen of Scots; and Isabella. Her first novel, Innocent Traitor, was published in 2006. Her other novels include The Lady Elizabeth, The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn, The Captive Queen, A Dangerous Inheritance, and Katherine of Aragon, the True Queen. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos

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Obras de Alison Weir

The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1991) 3,230 cópias
Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life (1999) 2,837 cópias
The Life of Elizabeth I (1998) 2,788 cópias
Innocent Traitor (2006) 2,452 cópias
The Children of Henry VIII (1996) 2,117 cópias
The Princes in the Tower (1992) 2,033 cópias
The Wars of the Roses (1995) 1,967 cópias
The Lady Elizabeth (2008) 1,814 cópias
Henry VIII: King and Court (2001) 1,664 cópias
The Captive Queen (2010) 815 cópias
The Marriage Game (2014) 279 cópias
Katherine Parr, The Sixth Wife (2021) 195 cópias
The Last White Rose (2022) 146 cópias
Traitors of the Tower (2010) 123 cópias
The King's Pleasure (2023) 61 cópias
A Tudor Christmas (2018) 53 cópias
Arthur, Prince of the Roses (2016) 22 cópias
BP Portrait Award 2011 (2011) 14 cópias
The King's Painter (2019) 8 cópias
The Grandmother's Tale (2018) 7 cópias
The Queen's Child (2021) 6 cópias
In This New Sepulchre (2021) 4 cópias
The Wicked Wife (2021) 3 cópias
A Man of God 1 exemplar(es)
Six Tudor Queens 3 book set (1-3) (2018) 1 exemplar(es)
Mary I: Queen of Sorrows (2024) 1 exemplar(es)

Associated Works

The Daughter of Time (1951) — Introdução, algumas edições5,878 cópias
The Witch and the Priest (1956) — Introdução, algumas edições40 cópias

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15th century (200) 16th century (423) biography (2,301) Britain (258) British (307) British history (789) crime (144) ebook (246) Eleanor of Aquitaine (170) Elizabeth I (377) England (1,755) English History (709) European History (232) fiction (1,375) France (208) Great Britain (160) Henry VIII (544) historical (434) historical fiction (1,660) history (4,491) Kindle (182) Lady Jane Grey (182) medieval (445) medieval history (294) Middle Ages (192) monarchy (227) mystery (1,098) non-fiction (2,050) novel (159) own (222) Plantagenet (230) read (383) Richard III (569) royalty (672) to-read (2,837) Tudor (752) Tudor England (208) Tudors (663) unread (198) Wars of the Roses (300)

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Membros

Discussions

Alison Weir em Folio Society Devotees (Abril 2022)
Mary Boleyn: The Mistress of Kings by Alison Weir (August 2011 batch) em Reviews of Early Reviewers Books (Janeiro 2012)

Resenhas

This short story is written in third-person specific about Henry VII’s eldest son.

Not much happens, sadly. Certainly not with Arthur. He hears second-hand reports of current events, such as the Perkin Warbeck affair, in which he has no direct involvement, and the outcome doesn’t affect his life in any respect.

I’d rather the author had cut things like the above-mentioned example and dramatized a few short scenes. We’re told who Arthur likes and dislikes, but we don’t see any of this play out. For example, we’re told he likes his sister Margret but dislikes his brother Harry (the future Henry VIII), so it’s a pity we couldn’t have had at least one scene featuring Arthur with each sibling to show the contrasting relationships.

Short stories like this don’t have much scope for anything big, but something still needs to happen – and the main character being told reports about what’s happened to someone who has little or no bearing on his life doesn’t cut it.

I’m a fan of this author, but this for me isn’t Alison Weir at her best. It’s interesting in places, but not in any way enthralling.
… (mais)
 
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PhilSyphe | outras 3 resenhas | Feb 29, 2024 |
This e-short picks is told from the point of view of Princess Mary, King Henry VIII's elder daughter, and picks up the action from the ending of the Jane Seymour novel, covering Jane's funeral and, in brief, the actions of the following couple of years, so is in effect a bridge between the Jane Seymour and Anne of Cleves novels. I guess really this could have been included in one or both of those novels, so doesn't offer any new perspective on events, unlike the other e-shorts in this series.
 
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john257hopper | 1 outra resenha | Feb 15, 2024 |
This is the third in the author's six novel series tracing the lives of Henry VIII's six wives. Jane Seymour was less significant as a political figure than her two predecessors and I had expected this to be a shorter novel, but it wasn't, though didn't feel at all overblown, given the consistent quality of Weir's writing. The novel covers her early life and the slow build up of her life at court first as a maid to Katharine of Aragon, then her frustration and dislike at the rise of Anne Boleyn, and the King's meeting and growing interest in her. At a purely human level, I can see why Henry was attracted to Jane's quieter and more amenable personality after the volatile Anne. Jane is not directly complicit in the horrific and dramatic events of April-May 1536 when Anne Boleyn was brought down, but of course she directly benefits and quickly marries Henry and becomes Queen. The King definitely genuinely loves her, and tolerates her attempts to soften the harsh edge of many of his actions, most famously, though unsuccessfully, over the Pilgrimage of Grace rebellion and the dissolution of the monasteries. In this novel Jane has one or two miscarriages before giving birth to the long awaited heir, the future King Edward VI, before tragically dying a few days later. In an afterword, the author explains how she has interpreted evidence about Jane's health and other developments to reconstruct the idea of the miscarriages and the causes of her sudden death. She thinks Jane died of a pulmonary embolism, exacerbated by weakness caused by food poisoning and the strains of childbirth (so it apparently wasn't a death in childbirth per se, or puerperal fever). A great read, with a tragic ending that left me feeling sad, even though of course totally anticipated.… (mais)
 
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john257hopper | outras 29 resenhas | Feb 15, 2024 |
To her credit, Alison Weir is a thorough researcher, but there was just too little to go on factually. (Not her fault) Mary's story could have easily (and more succinctly) been paired with research on Henry VIII's other paramours like Bessie Blount and still been a good read. Still it was nice to hear about this all-too-often overlooked (and luckier) sister of Anne Boleyn.
 
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tvemulapalli | outras 50 resenhas | Jan 22, 2024 |

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