ext_70885 ([identity profile] lareinenoire.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] lareinenoire 2007-02-19 11:24 am (UTC)

It was a brand new series, actually, called 'England's Forgotten Queens' and edited by Alison Weir. The first book was a new biography of Elizabeth Woodville that, though it's very obviously a whitewashing, is still quite well-written. I just felt this one was trying to be unnecessarily sensational when it already had a niche audience.

I do acknowledge that there isn't very much information about Anne Neville at all, but another alternative would have been a 'life and times' sort of book that pieced together the information there was with discussions of the time period, culture, so on. That would have been really interesting since most books about medieval women tend to stop before 1400 (with a few exceptions, as I've found).

I've just been turned off by the obvious use of modern standards to critique one specific medieval marriage (Margaret Beaufort was right there too, after all, and he didn't touch her). It's so obviously an agenda. I'm going to read the book -- I just have absolutely no desire to buy it.

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