The Fifth Queen (Masterplots: Revised Category Edition, British Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Ford Madox Hueffer
- First Published: 1906
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Historical romance
- Time of Work: 1539-1542
- Setting: England and France
- Principal Characters: Henry VIII, Princess Mary, Anne of Cleves, Katharine Howard, The Duke of Norfolk, Thomas Cromwell, Thomas Culpepper, Stephen Gardiner, Throckmorton, Nicholas Udal, Thomas Cranmer, Lascalles
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction
- Subjects: History, France or French people, Marriage, Betrayal, Religion, England or English people, Kings, queens, or royalty, Sixteenth century, Catholics or Catholic Church, Espionage or spies, Diplomacy or diplomats, Nobility, Wars of the Roses
- Locales: France, England
Written in the grand Victorian manner, THE FIFTH QUEEN is a full-bodied historical novel of the brief and tragic marriage of Katharine Howard to Henry VIII. Many readers will remember Henry’s first wife, Katharine of Aragon, because of Shakespeare, and Anne Boleyn, his second, because she was the mother of Queen Elizabeth I; but the others—Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Katharine Howard, and Katharine Parr—are only dim ghosts flickering through the twilight of history. Moreover, the reign of Henry VIII has not been a favorite topic with historical novelists, for it is...
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