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jazzy_daveElizabeth Norton "Anne of Cleves: Henry VIII's Discarded Bride" (Amberley Publishing)
A very good, if basic, biography. Although there's some conjecture and Norton doesn't offer anything new, this bio is highly readable and short enough so that people won't get tired of the book and not finish. I think Norton makes some very good points about how, even though Anne of Cleves was made wealthy and treated relatively well by Henry VIII, she would still have been much better off if she'd never met the man. This book makes me want to read the other biographies in this series on Henry VIII's wives.
A very good, if basic, biography. Although there's some conjecture and Norton doesn't offer anything new, this bio is highly readable and short enough so that people won't get tired of the book and not finish. I think Norton makes some very good points about how, even though Anne of Cleves was made wealthy and treated relatively well by Henry VIII, she would still have been much better off if she'd never met the man. This book makes me want to read the other biographies in this series on Henry VIII's wives.
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