Using multiple narrators, Weir tries to weave a conspiratorial web with Jane caught at the center, but the ever-changing perspectives prove unwieldy: Jane speaking as a four-year-old with a modern historian's vocabulary, for example, just doesn't ring true. When Edward dies, Lord and Lady Dorset maneuver the throne for their 16-year-old daughter, risking her life as well as increased violence between Protestants and Catholics. Not even the beheadings of Anne Boleyn and Katherine Howard deter parental ambition.
Jane relishes lessons in music, theology, philosophy and literature, but struggles to master courtly manners as her mother demands.
As Weir tells it, Jane's parents, the Marquess and Marchioness of Dorset, groom her from infancy to be the perfect consort for Henry's son, Prince Edward, entrusting their daughter to a nurse's care while they attend to affairs at court. Weir's heroine is Lady Jane Grey (1537–1554), whose ascension to the English throne was briefly and unluckily promoted by opponents of Henry's Catholic heir, Mary. , etc.) makes her historical fiction debut with this coming-of-age novel set in the time of Henry VIII. Urn:oclc:156354427 Republisher_date 20170322220427 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 690 Scandate 20170322132841 Scanner biographer Weir ( Eleanor of Aquitaine Donorīostonpubliclibrary Edition Large print ed. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 17:09:43.026267 Bookplateleaf 0003 Boxid IA1149611 City Detroit, Mich.
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