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| 41 | <p align="center">This page contains information on<br>
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| 42 | Tudor-related Exhibits, Books, Films, etc</p>
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| 47 | alt="Jane Dunn biography" width="100" height="148"></i></font></p>
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| 57 | <td valign="top" width="48%" height="553"> <b>29 September 2004</b><br>
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| 58 | <img border="0" src="ivesbook.jpg" align="left">Professor
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| 59 | Eric Ives, who wrote the definitive biography of Anne Boleyn in 1988, has
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| 60 | just released <i>The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn: The Most Happy </i>(<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0631234799/qid=1096393461/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/104-8047124-6243950?v=glance&s=books&n=507846">US</a>
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| 61 | and
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| 62 | <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0631234799/qid=1096393233/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl/202-4684411-4080647">
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| 63 | UK</a>), which incorporates new research and addresses issues raised by
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| 64 | the biographies of Anne which followed his own (including Warnicke and
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| 65 | Starkey's work.) Tudor enthusiasts know that
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| 66 | <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0521406773/qid=1096481812/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl/202-4684411-4080647">
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| 67 | Warnicke's</a> <i>The Rise and Fall of Anne Boleyn</i> questioned many of
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| 68 | Ives's conclusions.<p>I should stress that this is a <i>new</i> biography,
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| 69 | not simply a new edition of the 1988 work.</p>
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| 70 | <p>I'm still working on the Reviews section; please check back soon.</p>
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| 73 | style="font-weight: bold;">20 September 2004</font><br>
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| 74 | The Henry VIII miniseries starring Ray Winstone is <a
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| 75 | href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0002KPIR8/qid=1092239900/sr=1-4/ref=sr_1_4/102-1488722-9759359?v=glance&s=dvd">being
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| 76 | </a> <a
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| 77 | href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0002KPIR8/qid=1092239900/sr=1-4/ref=sr_1_4/102-1488722-9759359?v=glance&s=dvd">
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| 78 | released on Region 1 dvd</a> on 16 November for US viewers. <br>
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| 79 | However, it will appear on PBS as a two-part 'Masterpiece Theatre'
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| 80 | presentation before its DVD release, on 7 November and 14
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| 81 | November. Click here to visit <a
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| 82 | href="http://www.pbs.org/previews/henryVIII/">the PBS Previews page</a>.<br>
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| 83 | </p>
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| 85 | <p><small><img
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| 86 | src="henry8miniseries.jpg" title=""
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| 87 | alt="Henry VIII dvd" style="width: 105px; height: 150px;" align="left">Henry's
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| 88 | 38-year reign saw England transformed from a sleepy backwater of
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| 89 | jousting tournaments and Catholic piety to a nation torn by religious
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| 90 | and political strife - all because the king wanted a male heir.</small></p>
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| 93 | <p><small>"He was a very troubled man," observes Winstone, who in
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| 94 | the course of the film ages from the young athletic king to the burly
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| 95 | icon familiar from Hans Holbein paintings. "This is a man who allowed
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| 96 | two of his wives - women he loved passionately - to be murdered. At the
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| 97 | same time, he wrote beautiful love letters, understood science and, to
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| 98 | a certain extent, was a great ambassador. He was an intelligent,
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| 99 | gentle, romantic man who lost his way when it came to love."</small></p>
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| 111 | <p align="left"><font face="Times New Roman"
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| 112 | style="font-weight: bold;">July 2004</font><font face="Times New Roman"><br>
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| 113 | According to <a href="http://www.gallifreyone.com/newstv.php">Outpost
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| 114 | Gallifrey</a>, the new <b>Doctor Who</b> series will feature <b>an
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| 115 | appearance by Henry VIII</b>:</font></p>
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| 117 | <p align="left"><font face="Times New Roman">An article in the
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| 118 | June 29 Daily Star says that the new Doctor Who series "will feature
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| 119 | historic figures including Shakespeare, Henry VIII and Einstein - who
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| 120 | are locked up together inside a Big Brother-style house. Famous
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| 121 | housemates will face eviction and death from aliens when the classic
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| 122 | sci-fi show comes back to our screens next year. The new series, which
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| 123 | stars Christopher Eccleston as Dr Who, is aiming to win over a whole
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| 124 | new generation of young followers of the Tardis timelord. Christopher
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| 125 | said: 'We can parallel things with science fiction and address what's
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| 126 | going on around us to a certain extent for young people without being
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| 127 | pompous.' In one of the planned episodes of the hotly-awaited series,
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| 128 | some of the world's most famous figures from the past are kidnapped
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| 129 | from their time zones by aliens. They are put in a Big Bruvstyle house
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| 130 | for extraterrestrial television entertainment."<font size="2"> (Thanks
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| 131 | to Paul Engelberg)</font></font></p>
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| 132 | </blockquote>
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| 133 | <p align="left"><font face="Times New Roman">The Ninth Doctor is
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| 134 | being played by Christopher Eccleston, who played the duke of Norfolk
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| 135 | in 1998's <i>Elizabeth</i>. Yes, these are tenuous Tudor links
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| 136 | but I'm a Doctor Who fan as well.</font></p>
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| 138 | <p align="left"><font face="Times New Roman">Thanks to the
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| 139 | Barbie collector who emailed me the link to
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| 140 | <a
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| 141 | href="http://www.barbiecollector.com/showcase/product.asp?type=&subtype=&product_id=1003486">the
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| 142 | 'World of Royalty: Queen Elizabeth I' doll</a>. For those of you
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| 143 | who missed the 1995 Elizabeth doll, mark September in your
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| 144 | calendars. And start saving - the doll will probably retail at
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| 145 | $250.</font></p>
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| 146 | <hr>
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| 147 | <p align="left"><b><font face="Times New Roman"><i>Elizabeth</i>
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| 148 | sequel in the works?</font></b><font face="Times New Roman"><br>
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| 149 | <font size="2">(Source: <a
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| 150 | href="http://www.comingsoon.net/news.php?id=4977">http://www.comingsoon.net/news.php?id=4977</a>)</font></font></p>
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| 151 | <p align="left"><font face="Times New Roman">Aussie's <i>The
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| 152 | Daily Telegraph</i> spoke to <b>
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| 153 | Elizabeth</b> director Shekhar Kapur who says that he is working on a
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| 154 | sequel to the 1998 Cate Blanchett drama.<br>
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| 155 | <br>
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| 156 | Blanchett is expected to take the throne again and star in the epic -
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| 157 | based on Queen Elizabeth I - which has the working title of <b>Golden
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| 158 | Age</b>. "It is about the battle between her life as a monarch and her
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| 159 | personal life," Kapur said. "It ends in the destruction of the Spanish
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| 160 | Armada on the larger level."
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| 161 | <br>
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| 162 | <br>
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| 163 | The Indian-born Kapur said the script, which Michael Hirst is working
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| 164 | on, would be ready in six months. "And then it depends on Cate's
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| 165 | schedule and my schedule as to when we start shooting."</font><font
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| 166 | face="Times New Roman" size="2"><br>
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| 167 | </font><font face="Times New Roman" size="1"><br>
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| 168 | More links:<br>
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| 169 | <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0127536/news">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0127536/news</a><br>
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| 170 | <a href="http://in.news.yahoo.com/040604/139/2dhbb.html">http://in.news.yahoo.com/040604/139/2dhbb.html</a></font></p>
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| 171 | <hr>
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| 172 | <p align="left" style="font-weight: bold;"><font
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| 173 | face="Times New Roman" size="4">EARLIER NEWS</font></p>
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| 174 | <p align="left"><font face="Times New Roman">
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| 175 | <img border="0" src="r3.jpg"
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| 176 | alt="Richard III" align="left" width="107" height="150"></font><big><font
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| 177 | face="Times New Roman" size="2"><big>The Criterion Collection (which
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| 178 | has collected quite a bit of my money over the years) has just released
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| 179 | Laurence Olivier's
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| 180 | <a href="http://criterionco.com/asp/release.asp?id=213">1955
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| 181 | version of <i>
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| 182 | Richard III</i></a>. This was the third Shakespeare play which
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| 183 | Olivier both directed and starred in (after <i>Henry V </i>and <i>Hamlet</i>)
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| 184 | and remains the definitive film treatment of <i>Richard III</i>.
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| 185 | Olivier's work is incredible, - he is the physical embodiment of
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| 186 | villainy, plotting with gleeful malevolence one moment and inspiring
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| 187 | our pity the next. And if anyone is wondering why this is
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| 188 | included at the <i>Tudor</i> Media News page, well - the future Henry
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| 189 | VII does make an appearance and the Battle of Bosworth Field marks both
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| 190 | the end of Richard's life and the beginning of the Tudor dynasty.</big></font></big></p>
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| 191 | <p align="left"> </p>
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| 192 | <p align="left"><font face="Times New Roman">
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| 193 | <i><img border="0"
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| 195 | alt="Jane Dunn biography" align="left" width="100" height="148"></i><b><i>Elizabeth
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| 196 | and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens</i> by Jane Dunn was recently
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| 197 | released.</b> I am still working on the new and improved Reviews
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| 198 | section, but here is a quick review - a worthwhile addition to your
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| 199 | Tudor library. I've read enough about both women to wonder if I
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| 200 | would learn anything from this book, but I was pleasantly
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| 201 | surprised. A liberal use of primary sources plus a lovely
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| 202 | selection of portraits - and the book jacket and boards are beautifully
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| 203 | designed. As competition for Alison Plowden's <i>Two Queens in
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| 204 | One Isle</i>, this book is the better choice.</font></p>
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| 208 | src="guyscots.gif" align="left"
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| 209 | alt="John Guy biography" width="100" height="151">At last!
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| 210 | Finally, another major biography of Mary Stuart has been
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| 211 | released.
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| 212 | <b><i>Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart</i> is by
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| 213 | noted Tudor historian John Guy</b>. Antonia Fraser's biography
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| 214 | was serviceable but my own casual research revealed large gaps in her
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| 215 | use of primary sources. I always wondered - when would another
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| 216 | historian focus on Mary's tumultuous life? I should note that the
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| 217 | UK version of this work is entitled <i>My Heart is My Own: The Life of
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| 218 | Mary Queen of Scots</i> and the jacket features the Clouet sketch of an
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| 219 | adolescent Mary. The American edition, shown above, has the 'hat'
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| 220 | portrait <i>minus</i> the hat! As an admirer of
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| 221 | <a href="http://www.marileecody.com/maryqos1565.jpg">the hat</a>
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| 222 | and its fluffy feather, I'm rather disappointed.</font></p>
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| 223 | <p align="left"> </p>
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| 224 | <p align="left"> <font face="Times New Roman"> <img border="0"
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| 226 | width="70" height="108"><b><i>Anne
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| 227 | Boleyn: A New Life of England's Tragic Queen</i> by Joanna Denny
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| 228 | will be published in April
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| 229 | <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/074995017X/qid=1076882496/sr=2-2/ref=sr_2_11_2/026-4110626-7673264">in the UK</a>. </b>In comparison with the
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| 230 | two existing major biographies of Anne (by Carrolly Erickson and Retha
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| 231 | Warnicke), this one is the most successful 'popular' biography.
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| 232 | And no, I don't mean 'popular' as a slur; far from it. I'll post
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| 233 | my review at the new Reviews section when I've finished.</font></p>
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| 235 | <p align="left"><font face="Times New Roman"><b>The Folger Shakespeare
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| 236 | Library has finished its nine-year restoration of the Trevelyon
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| 237 | Miscellany. </b><font size="2">It's now the focus of <a
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| 238 | href="http://www.folger.edu/public/exhibit/Trevelyon/intro.asp">an excellent
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| 239 | exhibit</a>.</font></font></p>
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