Mistress Anne [Paperback]

As Maureen Quilligan wrote in theNew York Times Book ReviewofThe First Elizabeth, Anne Boleyn was a real victim of the sexual scandals her brilliant daughter escaped, and a subject Ms. Erickson's sensitivity to sexual and political nuance should well serve. Indeed, Carolly Erickson could have chosen no more fascinating and appropriate a subject. Alluring and profoundly enigmatic, Anne Boleyn has eluded the grasp of historians for centuries.
Through her extraordinarily vivid re-creation of this most tragic chapter in all Tudor History, Carrolly Erickson gives us unprecedented insight into the singuarlity of Anne Boleyn's life, the dark and overwhelming forces that shaped her errant destiny, and the rare, tumultuous times in which she lived.

Anne Boleyn emerges as alluring, arrogant, and, ultimately trapped. The author successfully turns the cliche into a real person. Linda Charlton, The New York Times Book Review

What more intriguing subject, then, for a historian who has chosen to concentrate on the Tudor period, and whose previous studies of Henry VIII, Queen Mary, and Queen Elizabeth have been hailed for impeccable scholarship, graceful phrasing, and almost addictive readability--for the vividness and immediacy usually only found in the best novels. Alida Becker, The Philadelphia Inquirer

Erickson is one of the most accomplished and successful biographers writing in English. London Times Literary Supplement

This book is highly enjoyable as well as being reilable and acute, indeed, it is popular historical biography at its best. Christopher Hibbert, London Times

Distinguished historianCarolly Ericksonis the author ofRival to the Queen,The Memoirs of Mary Queen of Scots,The First Elizabeth,The Hidden Life of Josephine,The Last Wife of Henry VIII,and many other prize-winning works of fiction and nonfiction. Her novelThe Tsarina'slC!