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| 53 | <p align="center"> <img border="0"
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| 55 | height="138" alt="Tudor Media News"></p>
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| 58 | <p align="center">This page contains information on<br>
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| 59 | Tudor-related Exhibits, Books, Films, etc</p>
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| 61 | <p align="center"><font face="Times New Roman">
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| 62 | <i><img border="0"
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| 63 | src="_httpdocimg_/dunnbook.gif"
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| 64 | alt="Jane Dunn biography" width="100" height="148"></i></font></p>
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| 65 | <p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
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| 66 | <p align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"> <a
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| 67 | href="_httpextlink_&amp;rl=1&amp;href=http:%2f%2fenglishhistory.net%2ftudor%2fcontents.html">to Tudor England:
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| 68 | Contents</a></font></p>
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| 69 | <p align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"> <a
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| 70 | href="mailto:[email protected]">Share your Tudor news!</a></font></p>
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| 74 | <td valign="top" width="48%" height="553"> <b>29 September 2004</b><br>
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| 75 | <img border="0" src="_httpdocimg_/ivesbook.jpg" align="left">Professor
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| 76 | Eric Ives, who wrote the definitive biography of Anne Boleyn in 1988, has
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| 77 | just released <i>The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn: The Most Happy </i>(<a href="_httpextlink_&amp;rl=0&amp;href=http:%2f%2fwww.amazon.com%2fexec%2fobidos%2ftg%2fdetail%2f-%2f0631234799%2fqid%3d1096393461%2fsr%3d8-1%2fref%3dsr%5f8%5fxs%5fap%5fi1%5fxgl14%2f104-8047124-6243950%3fv%3dglance%26s%3dbooks%26n%3d507846">US</a>
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| 78 | and
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| 79 | <a href="_httpextlink_&amp;rl=0&amp;href=http:%2f%2fwww.amazon.co.uk%2fexec%2fobidos%2fASIN%2f0631234799%2fqid%3d1096393233%2fref%3dsr%5f8%5fxs%5fap%5fi1%5fxgl%2f202-4684411-4080647">
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| 80 | UK</a>), which incorporates new research and addresses issues raised by
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| 81 | the biographies of Anne which followed his own (including Warnicke and
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| 82 | Starkey's work.)&nbsp; Tudor enthusiasts know that
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| 83 | <a href="_httpextlink_&amp;rl=0&amp;href=http:%2f%2fwww.amazon.co.uk%2fexec%2fobidos%2fASIN%2f0521406773%2fqid%3d1096481812%2fref%3dsr%5f8%5fxs%5fap%5fi1%5fxgl%2f202-4684411-4080647">
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| 84 | Warnicke's</a> <i>The Rise and Fall of Anne Boleyn</i> questioned many of
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| 85 | Ives's conclusions.<p>I should stress that this is a <i>new</i> biography,
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| 86 | not simply a new edition of the 1988 work.</p>
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| 87 | <p>I'm still working on the Reviews section; please check back soon.</p>
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| 88 | <hr>
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| 90 | style="font-weight: bold;">20 September 2004</font><br>
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| 91 | The Henry VIII miniseries starring Ray Winstone is <a
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| 92 | href="_httpextlink_&amp;rl=0&amp;href=http:%2f%2fwww.amazon.com%2fexec%2fobidos%2ftg%2fdetail%2f-%2fB0002KPIR8%2fqid%3d1092239900%2fsr%3d1-4%2fref%3dsr%5f1%5f4%2f102-1488722-9759359%3fv%3dglance%26amp;s%3ddvd">being
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| 93 | </a> <a
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| 94 | href="_httpextlink_&amp;rl=0&amp;href=http:%2f%2fwww.amazon.com%2fexec%2fobidos%2ftg%2fdetail%2f-%2fB0002KPIR8%2fqid%3d1092239900%2fsr%3d1-4%2fref%3dsr%5f1%5f4%2f102-1488722-9759359%3fv%3dglance%26amp;s%3ddvd">
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| 95 | released on Region 1 dvd</a> on 16 November for US viewers. <br>
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| 96 | However, it will appear on PBS as a two-part 'Masterpiece Theatre'
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| 97 | presentation before its DVD release, on 7 November and 14
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| 98 | November.&nbsp; Click here to visit <a
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| 99 | href="_httpextlink_&amp;rl=0&amp;href=http:%2f%2fwww.pbs.org%2fpreviews%2fhenryVIII">the PBS Previews page</a>.<br>
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| 100 | </p>
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| 102 | <p><small><img
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| 103 | src="_httpdocimg_/henry8miniseries.jpg" title=""
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| 104 | alt="Henry VIII dvd" style="width: 105px; height: 150px;" align="left">Henry's
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| 105 | 38-year reign saw England transformed from a sleepy backwater of
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| 106 | jousting tournaments and Catholic piety to a nation torn by religious
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| 107 | and political strife - all because the king wanted a male heir.</small></p>
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| 110 | <p><small>"He was a very troubled man," observes Winstone, who in
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| 111 | the course of the film ages from the young athletic king to the burly
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| 112 | icon familiar from Hans Holbein paintings. "This is a man who allowed
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| 113 | two of his wives - women he loved passionately - to be murdered. At the
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| 114 | same time, he wrote beautiful love letters, understood science and, to
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| 115 | a certain extent, was a great ambassador. He was an intelligent,
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| 116 | gentle, romantic man who lost his way when it came to love."</small></p>
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| 128 | <p align="left"><font face="Times New Roman"
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| 129 | style="font-weight: bold;">July 2004</font><font face="Times New Roman"><br>
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| 130 | According to <a href="_httpextlink_&amp;rl=0&amp;href=http:%2f%2fwww.gallifreyone.com%2fnewstv.php">Outpost
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| 131 | Gallifrey</a>, the new <b>Doctor Who</b> series will feature <b>an
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| 132 | appearance by Henry VIII</b>:</font></p>
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| 133 | <blockquote>
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| 134 | <p align="left"><font face="Times New Roman">An article in the
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| 135 | June 29 Daily Star says that the new Doctor Who series "will feature
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| 136 | historic figures including Shakespeare, Henry VIII and Einstein - who
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| 137 | are locked up together inside a Big Brother-style house. Famous
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| 138 | housemates will face eviction and death from aliens when the classic
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| 139 | sci-fi show comes back to our screens next year. The new series, which
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| 140 | stars Christopher Eccleston as Dr Who, is aiming to win over a whole
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| 141 | new generation of young followers of the Tardis timelord. Christopher
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| 142 | said: 'We can parallel things with science fiction and address what's
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| 143 | going on around us to a certain extent for young people without being
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| 144 | pompous.' In one of the planned episodes of the hotly-awaited series,
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| 145 | some of the world's most famous figures from the past are kidnapped
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| 146 | from their time zones by aliens. They are put in a Big Bruvstyle house
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| 147 | for extraterrestrial television entertainment."<font size="2"> (Thanks
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| 148 | to Paul Engelberg)</font></font></p>
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| 149 | </blockquote>
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| 150 | <p align="left"><font face="Times New Roman">The Ninth Doctor is
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| 151 | being played by Christopher Eccleston, who played the duke of Norfolk
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| 152 | in 1998's <i>Elizabeth</i>.&nbsp; Yes, these are tenuous Tudor links
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| 153 | but I'm a Doctor Who fan as well.</font></p>
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| 154 | <hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;">
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| 155 | <p align="left"><font face="Times New Roman">Thanks to the
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| 156 | Barbie collector who emailed me the link to
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| 157 | <a
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| 158 | href="_httpextlink_&amp;rl=0&amp;href=http:%2f%2fwww.barbiecollector.com%2fshowcase%2fproduct.asp%3ftype%3d%26amp;subtype%3d%26amp;product%5fid%3d1003486">the
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| 159 | 'World of Royalty: Queen Elizabeth I' doll</a>.&nbsp; For those of you
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| 160 | who missed the 1995 Elizabeth doll, mark September in your
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| 161 | calendars.&nbsp; And start saving - the doll will probably retail at
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| 162 | $250.</font></p>
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| 163 | <hr>
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| 164 | <p align="left"><b><font face="Times New Roman"><i>Elizabeth</i>
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| 165 | sequel in the works?</font></b><font face="Times New Roman"><br>
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| 166 | <font size="2">(Source: <a
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| 167 | href="_httpextlink_&amp;rl=0&amp;href=http:%2f%2fwww.comingsoon.net%2fnews.php%3fid%3d4977">http://www.comingsoon.net/news.php?id=4977</a>)</font></font></p>
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| 168 | <p align="left"><font face="Times New Roman">Aussie's <i>The
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| 169 | Daily Telegraph</i> spoke to <b>
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| 170 | Elizabeth</b> director Shekhar Kapur who says that he is working on a
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| 171 | sequel to the 1998 Cate Blanchett drama.<br>
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| 172 | <br>
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| 173 | Blanchett is expected to take the throne again and star in the epic -
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| 174 | based on Queen Elizabeth I - which has the working title of <b>Golden
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| 175 | Age</b>. "It is about the battle between her life as a monarch and her
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| 176 | personal life," Kapur said. "It ends in the destruction of the Spanish
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| 177 | Armada on the larger level."
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| 178 | <br>
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| 179 | <br>
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| 180 | The Indian-born Kapur said the script, which Michael Hirst is working
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| 181 | on, would be ready in six months. "And then it depends on Cate's
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| 182 | schedule and my schedule as to when we start shooting."</font><font
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| 183 | face="Times New Roman" size="2"><br>
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| 184 | </font><font face="Times New Roman" size="1"><br>
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| 185 | More links:<br>
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| 186 | <a href="_httpextlink_&amp;rl=0&amp;href=http:%2f%2fwww.imdb.com%2ftitle%2ftt0127536%2fnews">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0127536/news</a><br>
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| 187 | <a href="_httpextlink_&amp;rl=0&amp;href=http:%2f%2fin.news.yahoo.com%2f040604%2f139%2f2dhbb.html">http://in.news.yahoo.com/040604/139/2dhbb.html</a></font></p>
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| 188 | <hr>
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| 189 | <p align="left" style="font-weight: bold;"><font
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| 190 | face="Times New Roman" size="4">EARLIER NEWS</font></p>
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| 191 | <p align="left"><font face="Times New Roman">
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| 192 | <img border="0" src="_httpdocimg_/r3.jpg"
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| 193 | alt="Richard III" align="left" width="107" height="150"></font><big><font
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| 194 | face="Times New Roman" size="2"><big>The Criterion Collection (which
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| 195 | has collected quite a bit of my money over the years) has just released
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| 196 | Laurence Olivier's
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| 197 | <a href="_httpextlink_&amp;rl=0&amp;href=http:%2f%2fcriterionco.com%2fasp%2frelease.asp%3fid%3d213">1955
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| 198 | version of <i>
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| 199 | Richard III</i></a>.&nbsp; This was the third Shakespeare play which
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| 200 | Olivier both directed and starred in (after <i>Henry V </i>and <i>Hamlet</i>)
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| 201 | and remains the definitive film treatment of <i>Richard III</i>.&nbsp;
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| 202 | Olivier's work is incredible, - he is the physical embodiment of
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| 203 | villainy, plotting with gleeful malevolence one moment and inspiring
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| 204 | our pity the next.&nbsp; And if anyone is wondering why this is
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| 205 | included at the <i>Tudor</i> Media News page, well - the future Henry
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| 206 | VII does make an appearance and the Battle of Bosworth Field marks both
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| 207 | the end of Richard's life and the beginning of the Tudor dynasty.</big></font></big></p>
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| 208 | <p align="left">&nbsp;</p>
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| 209 | <p align="left"><font face="Times New Roman">
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| 210 | <i><img border="0"
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| 211 | src="_httpdocimg_/dunnbook.gif"
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| 212 | alt="Jane Dunn biography" align="left" width="100" height="148"></i><b><i>Elizabeth
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| 213 | and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens</i> by Jane Dunn was recently
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| 214 | released.</b>&nbsp; I am still working on the new and improved Reviews
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| 215 | section, but here is a quick review - a worthwhile addition to your
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| 216 | Tudor library.&nbsp; I've read enough about both women to wonder if I
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| 217 | would learn anything from this book, but I was pleasantly
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| 218 | surprised.&nbsp; A liberal use of primary sources plus a lovely
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| 219 | selection of portraits - and the book jacket and boards are beautifully
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| 220 | designed.&nbsp; As competition for Alison Plowden's <i>Two Queens in
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| 221 | One Isle</i>, this book is the better choice.</font></p>
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| 222 | <p align="left">&nbsp;</p>
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| 223 | <p align="left"><font face="Times New Roman">
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| 225 | src="_httpdocimg_/guyscots.gif" align="left"
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| 226 | alt="John Guy biography" width="100" height="151">At last!&nbsp;
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| 227 | Finally, another major biography of Mary Stuart has been
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| 228 | released.&nbsp;
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| 229 | <b><i>Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart</i> is by
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| 230 | noted Tudor historian John Guy</b>.&nbsp; Antonia Fraser's biography
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| 231 | was serviceable but my own casual research revealed large gaps in her
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| 232 | use of primary sources.&nbsp; I always wondered - when would another
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| 233 | historian focus on Mary's tumultuous life?&nbsp; I should note that the
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| 234 | UK version of this work is entitled <i>My Heart is My Own: The Life of
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| 235 | Mary Queen of Scots</i> and the jacket features the Clouet sketch of an
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| 236 | adolescent Mary.&nbsp; The American edition, shown above, has the 'hat'
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| 237 | portrait <i>minus</i> the hat!&nbsp; As an admirer of
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| 238 | <a href="_httpextlink_&amp;rl=0&amp;href=http:%2f%2fwww.marileecody.com%2fmaryqos1565.jpg">the hat</a>
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| 239 | and its fluffy feather, I'm rather disappointed.</font></p>
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| 240 | <p align="left">&nbsp;</p>
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| 241 | <p align="left"> <font face="Times New Roman"> <img border="0"
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| 242 | src="_httpdocimg_/boleynbook.jpg" align="left"
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| 243 | width="70" height="108"><b><i>Anne
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| 244 | Boleyn: A New Life of England's Tragic Queen</i> by Joanna Denny
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| 245 | will be published in April
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| 246 | <a href="_httpextlink_&amp;rl=0&amp;href=http:%2f%2fwww.amazon.co.uk%2fexec%2fobidos%2fASIN%2f074995017X%2fqid%3d1076882496%2fsr%3d2-2%2fref%3dsr%5f2%5f11%5f2%2f026-4110626-7673264">in the UK</a>.&nbsp; </b>In comparison with the
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| 247 | two existing major biographies of Anne (by Carrolly Erickson and Retha
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| 248 | Warnicke), this one is the most successful 'popular' biography.&nbsp;
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| 249 | And no, I don't mean 'popular' as a slur; far from it.&nbsp; I'll post
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| 250 | my review at the new Reviews section when I've finished.</font></p>
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| 251 | <p align="left"> &nbsp;</p>
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| 252 | <p align="left"><font face="Times New Roman"><b>The Folger Shakespeare
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| 253 | Library has finished its nine-year restoration of the Trevelyon
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| 254 | Miscellany.&nbsp; </b><font size="2">It's now the focus of <a
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| 255 | href="_httpextlink_&amp;rl=0&amp;href=http:%2f%2fwww.folger.edu%2fpublic%2fexhibit%2fTrevelyon%2fintro.asp">an excellent
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| 256 | exhibit</a>.</font></font></p>
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