The Fifth Queen Ford Madox Ford 9781517342005 Books
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Ford Madox Ford’s novel about the doomed Katharine Howard, fifth queen of Henry VIII, is a neglected masterpiece. Kat Howard—intelligent, beautiful, naively outspoken, and passionately idealistic—catches the eye of Henry VIII and improbably becomes his fifth wife. A teenager who has grown up far from court, she is wholly unused to the corruption and intrigue that now surround her. It is a time of great upheaval, as unscrupulous courtiers maneuver for power while religious fanatics—both Protestant and Catholic—fight bitterly for their competing beliefs. Soon Katharine is drawn into a perilous showdown with Thomas Cromwell, the much-feared Lord Privy Seal, as her growing influence over the King begins to threaten too many powerful interests. Originally published in three parts (The Fifth Queen, Privy Seal, and The Fifth Queen Crowned), Ford’s novel serves up both a breathtakingly visual evocation of the Tudor world and a timeless portrayal of the insidious operations of power and fear in any era.
The Fifth Queen Ford Madox Ford 9781517342005 Books
This trilogy on Cromwell and Katherine Howard is marvellously vivid, but it is historically fraudulent, so what is the point? Its virtue: You can positively breathe the air of 1539, so vivid is the description, so active are the characters and populace. Problems: 1) All of the characters, major and minor, 100%, are obnoxious or despicable! Including the snakey Cromwell, that current fashion favors (since his sympathetic portrait in the miniseries The Tudors). So ---- unless one wishes simply a vivid account of the times, is there any use struggling through a story about yucky people? 2) Unhistorical, so what is the point? Why read an "historical" novel that is not actually historical, but alters history wildly to make a better story or because the author just wanted to tell it that way? Katharine Howard was NOT placed in court as a lady-in-waiting to Mary Tudor but to Anne of Cleves. It matters. Thomas Culpeper did NOT bring Katherine to court and have a long previous relationship with her!! And he was not closely related to her at all. Author Ford has mixed up Dereham and Culpeper, on purpose, but the truth was quite lurid enough without mooshing characters together, like making the king's two sisters one woman as The Tudors series did. A lot of this goes on, but I'd like to see some "rules" for historical novels. Okay: to put events in historical novels that we have no historical record of but MIGHT have happened. Not okay: to just change the history to make a better or simpler story!!!!! These are the expectations I have for historical novels. If an author cannot abide by these rules, I give up on him or her. It's like the long-used rules about Shakespeare's plays: you can cut and you can repeat and you can do extra dumbshows, but you cannot put in new language because your name is not Shakespeare!!Product details
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The Fifth Queen Ford Madox Ford 9781517342005 Books Reviews
I had a very difficult time getting into the book & have put it aside for the time being. I'm not sure if I will get back to it.
The novel is well written but Ford so romanticizes Katherine Howard that the novel is almost unreadable! Avoid this unless you are a diehard Ford fan.
Fair
It's rare I pick up a book and don't finish it, but this one did me in. I just could not get into it for some reason - the way it is written was cumbersome to me, and just not engaging. I love Tudor history, and I enjoy well written historical fiction, so I will try anything from this subject. This one was a huge disappointment for me.
Loved his big one, generally like historical novels and literary big wigs (eg, Graham Greene) raved about this, revisionist version of Catherine Howard, Henry viiii's second to last wife. Boring, as is Catherine, could not wait for her to die!
I loved this book. The author writes in a beautiful style, and you really get the feel of Old England from it.
Katherine Howard was puritanical although as stauch Catholic, devote of the "Old Faith". Her intellectual and emotional fight was to try to turn Henry back into a good son of the Church again. Except for her singlemindedness she is a nothing. Strong willed and capable of temporarily nagging Henry into positions he won't keep to, I suppose, but smart she's not. A teenage naivete for sure. Henry in his advancing age dotes on her in a drippy, pushing past middle age, way. So the three star mediocre response is due to the subject. The writing and some of the ancillary characters are first rate and deserve the 5 stars.
This trilogy on Cromwell and Katherine Howard is marvellously vivid, but it is historically fraudulent, so what is the point? Its virtue You can positively breathe the air of 1539, so vivid is the description, so active are the characters and populace. Problems 1) All of the characters, major and minor, 100%, are obnoxious or despicable! Including the snakey Cromwell, that current fashion favors (since his sympathetic portrait in the miniseries The Tudors). So ---- unless one wishes simply a vivid account of the times, is there any use struggling through a story about yucky people? 2) Unhistorical, so what is the point? Why read an "historical" novel that is not actually historical, but alters history wildly to make a better story or because the author just wanted to tell it that way? Katharine Howard was NOT placed in court as a lady-in-waiting to Mary Tudor but to Anne of Cleves. It matters. Thomas Culpeper did NOT bring Katherine to court and have a long previous relationship with her!! And he was not closely related to her at all. Author Ford has mixed up Dereham and Culpeper, on purpose, but the truth was quite lurid enough without mooshing characters together, like making the king's two sisters one woman as The Tudors series did. A lot of this goes on, but I'd like to see some "rules" for historical novels. Okay to put events in historical novels that we have no historical record of but MIGHT have happened. Not okay to just change the history to make a better or simpler story!!!!! These are the expectations I have for historical novels. If an author cannot abide by these rules, I give up on him or her. It's like the long-used rules about Shakespeare's plays you can cut and you can repeat and you can do extra dumbshows, but you cannot put in new language because your name is not Shakespeare!!
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