Mistress Anne

As Maureen Quilligan wrote in the New York Times Book Review of The First Elizabeth Anne Boleyn was a real victim of the sexual scandals her brilliant daughter escaped and a subject Ms. Ericksons 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 Boleyns life the dark and overwhelming forces that shaped her errant destiny and the rare tumultuous times in which she lived.