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| 31 | <br> <img border="0" src="whatsnew.gif" alt="What's New?" width="377" height="78"></p>
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| 32 | <blockquote>
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| 33 | <hr>
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| 34 | </blockquote>
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| 35 | <p> <u><font size="4">
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| 36 | <img border="0" src="ivesbook.jpg" align="left" width="95" height="140"></font></u></p>
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| 37 | <p> <b><u><font size="4">29 September 2004<br></font></u></b>Professor
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| 38 | Eric Ives, who wrote the definitive biography of Anne Boleyn in 1986, has
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| 39 | 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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| 40 | and
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| 41 | <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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| 42 | UK</a>), which incorporates new research and addresses issues raised by
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| 43 | the biographies of Anne which followed his own (including Warnicke and
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| 44 | Starkey's work.) Tudor enthusiasts know that
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| 45 | <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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| 46 | Warnicke's</a> <i>The Rise and Fall of Anne Boleyn</i> questioned many of
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| 47 | Ives's conclusions.</p>
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| 48 | <p>I should stress that this is a <i>new</i> biography,
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| 49 | not simply a new edition of the 1986 work.</p>
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| 50 | <p>I'm still working on the Reviews section; please check back soon.</p>
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| 51 | <p align="left">If you haven't been to <i>Tudor England: Images</i> in a
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| 52 | while, please visit. I did post <b>lots</b> of new portraits in the last
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| 53 | month or so, - check out the
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| 54 | <a href="http://www.marileecody.com/henry7images.html">Henry VII</a> -
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| 55 | <a href="http://www.marileecody.com/henry8images.html">Henry VIII</a> -
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| 56 | and <a href="http://www.marileecody.com/maryqosimages.html">Mary, queen of
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| 57 | Scots</a> pages. </p>
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| 58 | <p align="left">I will be adding some new Elizabeth I portraits soon.</p>
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| 59 | <p> </p>
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| 60 | <p> <font
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| 61 | style="font-weight: bold;">20 September 2004</font><br>
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| 62 | The Henry VIII miniseries starring Ray Winstone is <a
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| 63 | 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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| 64 | released on Region 1 dvd</a> on 16 November for US viewers. <br>
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| 65 | However, it will appear on PBS as a two-part 'Masterpiece Theatre'
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| 66 | presentation before its DVD release, on 7 November and 14
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| 67 | November. Click here to visit <a
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| 68 | href="http://www.pbs.org/previews/henryVIII/">the PBS Previews page</a>.<br>
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| 69 | </p>
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| 71 | <p><small><img
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| 72 | src="henry8miniseries.jpg" title=""
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| 73 | alt="Henry VIII dvd" style="width: 105px; height: 150px;" align="left"><font size="3">Henry's
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| 74 | 38-year reign saw England transformed from a sleepy backwater of
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| 75 | jousting tournaments and Catholic piety to a nation torn by religious
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| 76 | and political strife - all because the king wanted a male heir.</font></small></p>
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| 77 | <p>"He was a very troubled man," observes Winstone, who in
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| 78 | the course of the film ages from the young athletic king to the burly
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| 79 | icon familiar from Hans Holbein paintings. "This is a man who allowed
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| 80 | two of his wives - women he loved passionately - to be murdered. At the
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| 81 | same time, he wrote beautiful love letters, understood science and, to
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| 82 | a certain extent, was a great ambassador. He was an intelligent,
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| 83 | gentle, romantic man who lost his way when it came to love."</p>
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| 85 | <p> </p>
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| 86 | <p align="left"><font face="Times New Roman"
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| 87 | style="font-weight: bold;">July 2004</font><font face="Times New Roman"><br>
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| 88 | According to <a href="http://www.gallifreyone.com/newstv.php">Outpost
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| 89 | Gallifrey</a>, the new <b>Doctor Who</b> series will feature <b>an
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| 90 | appearance by Henry VIII</b>:</font></p>
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| 91 | <blockquote>
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| 92 | <p align="left"><font face="Times New Roman">An article in the
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| 93 | June 29 Daily Star says that the new Doctor Who series "will feature
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| 94 | historic figures including Shakespeare, Henry VIII and Einstein - who
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| 95 | are locked up together inside a Big Brother-style house. Famous
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| 96 | housemates will face eviction and death from aliens when the classic
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| 97 | sci-fi show comes back to our screens next year. The new series, which
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| 98 | stars Christopher Eccleston as Dr Who, is aiming to win over a whole
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| 99 | new generation of young followers of the Tardis timelord. Christopher
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| 100 | said: 'We can parallel things with science fiction and address what's
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| 101 | going on around us to a certain extent for young people without being
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| 102 | pompous.' In one of the planned episodes of the hotly-awaited series,
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| 103 | some of the world's most famous figures from the past are kidnapped
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| 104 | from their time zones by aliens. They are put in a Big Bruvstyle house
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| 105 | for extraterrestrial television entertainment."<font size="2"> (Thanks
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| 106 | to Paul Engelberg)</font></font></p>
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| 107 | </blockquote>
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| 108 | <p align="left"><font face="Times New Roman">The Ninth Doctor is
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| 109 | being played by Christopher Eccleston, who played the duke of Norfolk
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| 110 | in 1998's <i>Elizabeth</i>. Yes, these are tenuous Tudor links
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| 111 | but I'm a Doctor Who fan as well.</font></p>
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| 112 | <hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;">
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| 113 | <p align="left"><font face="Times New Roman">Thanks to the
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| 114 | Barbie collector who emailed me the link to
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| 115 | <a
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| 116 | href="http://www.barbiecollector.com/showcase/product.asp?type=&subtype=&product_id=1003486">the
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| 117 | 'World of Royalty: Queen Elizabeth I' doll</a>. For those of you
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| 118 | who missed the 1995 Elizabeth doll, mark September in your
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| 119 | calendars. And start saving - the doll will probably retail at
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| 120 | $250.</font></p>
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| 121 | <hr>
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| 122 | <p align="left"><b><font face="Times New Roman"><i>Elizabeth</i>
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| 123 | sequel in the works?</font></b><font face="Times New Roman"><br>
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| 124 | <font size="2">(Source: <a
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| 125 | 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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| 126 | <p align="left"><font face="Times New Roman">Aussie's <i>The
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| 127 | Daily Telegraph</i> spoke to <b>
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| 128 | Elizabeth</b> director Shekhar Kapur who says that he is working on a
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| 129 | sequel to the 1998 Cate Blanchett drama.<br>
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| 130 | <br>
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| 131 | Blanchett is expected to take the throne again and star in the epic -
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| 132 | based on Queen Elizabeth I - which has the working title of <b>Golden
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| 133 | Age</b>. "It is about the battle between her life as a monarch and her
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| 134 | personal life," Kapur said. "It ends in the destruction of the Spanish
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| 135 | Armada on the larger level."
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| 136 | <br>
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| 137 | <br>
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| 138 | The Indian-born Kapur said the script, which Michael Hirst is working
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| 139 | on, would be ready in six months. "And then it depends on Cate's
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| 140 | schedule and my schedule as to when we start shooting."</font><font
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| 141 | face="Times New Roman" size="2"><br>
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| 142 | </font><font face="Times New Roman" size="1"><br>
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| 143 | More links:<br>
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| 144 | <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0127536/news">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0127536/news</a><br>
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| 145 | <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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| 146 | <hr>
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| 147 | <p align="left" style="font-weight: bold;"><font
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| 148 | face="Times New Roman" size="4">EARLIER NEWS</font></p>
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| 149 | <p align="center"><font face="Times New Roman">
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| 150 | <i>
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| 151 | <img border="0"
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| 152 | src="dunnbook.gif"
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| 153 | alt="Jane Dunn biography" width="100" height="148"></i></font></p>
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| 154 | <p align="left"><font face="Times New Roman">
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| 155 | <b><i>Elizabeth
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| 156 | and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens</i> by Jane Dunn was recently
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| 157 | released.</b> I am <i>still</i> working on the new and improved Reviews
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| 158 | section, but here is a quick review - this is a worthwhile addition to your
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| 159 | Tudor library. I've read enough about both women to wonder if I
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| 160 | would learn anything from this book, but I was pleasantly
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| 161 | surprised. A liberal use of primary sources plus a lovely
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| 162 | selection of portraits - and the book jacket and boards are beautifully
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| 163 | designed. As competition for Alison Plowden's <i>Two Queens in
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| 164 | One Isle</i>, this book is the better choice.</font></p>
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| 165 | <p align="left"> </p>
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| 166 | <p align="center"><font face="Times New Roman">
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| 167 | <img border="0"
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| 168 | src="guyscots.gif"
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| 169 | alt="John Guy biography" width="100" height="151"></font></p>
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| 170 | <p align="left"><font face="Times New Roman">
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| 171 | At last!
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| 172 | Finally, another major biography of Mary Stuart has been
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| 173 | released.
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| 174 | <b><i>Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart</i> is by
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| 175 | noted Tudor historian John Guy</b>. Antonia Fraser's biography
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| 176 | was serviceable but my own casual research revealed large gaps in her
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| 177 | use of primary sources. I always wondered - when would another
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| 178 | historian focus on Mary's tumultuous life? I should note that the
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| 179 | UK version of this work is entitled <i>My Heart is My Own: The Life of
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| 180 | Mary Queen of Scots</i> and the jacket features the Clouet sketch of an
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| 181 | adolescent Mary. The American edition, shown above, has the 'hat'
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| 182 | portrait <i>minus</i> the hat! As an admirer of
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| 183 | <a href="http://www.marileecody.com/maryqos1565.jpg">the hat</a>
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| 184 | and its fluffy feather, I'm rather disappointed.</font></p>
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| 185 | <p align="left"> </p>
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| 186 | <p align="center"> <font face="Times New Roman">
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| 189 | width="70" height="108"></font></p>
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| 190 | <p align="left"> <font face="Times New Roman"> <b><i>Anne
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| 191 | Boleyn: A New Life of England's Tragic Queen</i> by Joanna Denny
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| 192 | was published in April
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| 193 | <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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| 194 | two existing major biographies of Anne (by Carrolly Erickson and Retha
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| 195 | Warnicke), this one is the most successful 'popular' biography.
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| 196 | And no, I don't mean 'popular' as a slur; far from it. I'll post
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| 197 | my review at the new Reviews section when I've finished.</font></p>
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| 198 | <p align="left"> </p>
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| 199 | <p align="left"><font face="Times New Roman"><b>The Folger Shakespeare
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| 200 | Library has finished its nine-year restoration of the Trevelyon
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| 201 | Miscellany. </b><font size="2">It's now the focus of <a
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| 202 | href="http://www.folger.edu/public/exhibit/Trevelyon/intro.asp">an excellent
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| 203 | exhibit</a>.</font></font></p>
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| 213 | <p align="center"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">News
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| 214 | prior to summer 2004 has been deleted.</font></b></p>
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