num_pages: 496
description: The six wives of Henry VIII - Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anna of Cleves, Katherine Howard and Catherine Parr - have become defined in a popular sense not so much by their lives as by the way these lives ended. But, as Antonia Fraser conclusively proves, they were rich and feisty characters. They may have been victims of Henry's obsession with a male heir, but they were not willing victims. On the contrary, they displayed considerable strength and intelligence at a time when their sex supposedly possessed little of either.
language: English
title: The Six Wives of Henry VIII
titlecomplete: The Six Wives of Henry VIII
characters: Jane Seymour, Catherine Howard, Henry VIII of England, Catherine Parr, Anne Boleyn, Catherine of Aragon, Anne of Cleves
genres: British Literature, Historical, History, Tudor Period, European History, Biography Memoir, Biography, 16th Century, Nonfiction, Womens
ratings_count: 18519
places: England
publisher: Phoenix