Katherine Howard: A Tudor Conspiracy | 
| Author: Joanna Denny
Publisher: Piatkus Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 145610
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 304
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Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.1 x 1
ISBN: 0749951206
Dewey Decimal Number: 920
EAN: 9780749951207
ASIN: 0749951206
Publication Date: March 1, 2008
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Product Description
Joanna Denny, author of Anne Boleyn, reveals another sensational episode in Tudor history—illuminating the true character of Katherine Howard, the young girl caught up in a maelstrom of ambition and conspiracy, which led to her execution for high treason while still only 17 years old. Who was Katherine, the beautiful young aristocrat who became a bait to catch a king? Was she simply naive and innocent, a victim of her grasping family's scheming? Or was she brazen and abandoned, recklessly indulging in dissolute games with lovers in contempt of her royal position? Joanna Denny's enthralling new book once again plunges the reader into the heart of the ruthless intrigues of the Tudor court—and gives a sympathetic and poignant portrait of a girl tragically trapped and betrayed by her own family.
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A Biased Book March 26, 2008
16 out of 21 found this review helpful
This thin account of the life of Henry V1's fifth wife is readable and enjoyable. The unwary reader may miss the obvious bias of the author against the Roman Catholic religion. Anne Boleyn was a good woman, religious, pious and wrongfully betrayed by Catholic partisans who are the bad guys.
"Katherine had been raised as a traditional Catholic. In awe of the
rituals, swayed by the mysticism and unquestioning theological
doctrines. She lit candles for her dead parents, ate fish on
Fridays and said her prayers by rote in the happy assurance that
whatever she did would be forgiven in the confessional."
This myth of the meaning of the sacrament of Confession betrays either a willful misrepresentation or a deliberate slur. The good guys are Reformers whose motives a pure and noble. Katherine Howard was a pawn of the same partisans and her wild sexual behavior was largely the fault of adult neglect during her formative years. According to this author. If you want entertainment then this is your book. If you want a more scholarly presentation of the issues of the day and the actors in this Tudor drama then look elsewhere.
A good read March 22, 2008
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
This book was somewhat disapointing not because of the skill of the author. The historical material is so thin, it is difficult to fabricate a story.
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