The Creation of Anne Boleyn, (Paperback)

from JanaRose1

Susan Bordo pulls together the legends, stories and tales of Anne Boleyn. Despite Henry VIII's attempts to eradicate her memory, Anne Boleyn is his most well known wife. Bordo spends a large part of the book talking about how Anne's tale has been influenced by cultural history and the historian/a...

from Hyzie

This is a hard book to rate for me. I feel like it vacilitated between a four and a two, which is why I left it at three, but I'm not completely comfortable with that rating. I guess a lot of my trouble was that I couldn't quite pin down what it was supposed to be. It was part biography, part soc...

from KerryMarsh

Wow what a book. Like so many of the most interesting characters in history - all is not what it seems. Anne Boleyn is no exception. Susan Bordo portrays a very different Anne than that we see in tele-movies (The Tudors) and in popular fiction. She has meticulously researched her subject and disc...

from TribPeriwinkle

An excellent study of how Anne has been depicted through the years in both history and popular culture. Bonus points for the emphasis on pointing out the disturbing anti-feminist undertones in The Other Boleyn Girl.

from Juliew.

I was very pleased to read this book.I had considered that I had read a lot on Anne Boleyn before beginning but I was glad to know there is so much more.I have watched television shows,seen movies and been on websites devoted to her and still this book surprised me.A fascinating portrait of Anne ...