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Considering that many of those interested in Anne Boleyn are female and that many are young, Mayhew frequently shows a baffling disdain for them, repeatedly calling them Anne's "fanatical fans and groupies". The women of the past fare just as severely in Mayhew's narrative. Queen Catherine of Aragon is cruelly labelled as "dwindling rapidly into a rather unattractive dumpy middle age". Mary Boleyn, we are told, "managed to inveigle herself into Henry VIII's bedroom". Considering we know next to nothing about Mary's affair with Henry VIII, including who initiated it, it is bewildering that Mayhew has the confidence to tell his readers that it was all Mary's ploy. Anne Boleyn is accused of "gaslighting the King of England into religious revolution".

jesus christ, what a fucking idiot.

#certainly puts all that concern-trolling about AB Files into perspective #like if he's always had this resentment brewing of AB content curators as gatekeepers....#which btw is ridiculous bcus claire ridgway let him post an excerpt promoting his previous book #the one abt tudor executions; and i believe he's done some guest articles before?#not to mention that i doubt owen emmerson is the only historian he consulted with that he then decided to smear campaign #just the only with personal inside knowledge of their interactions (detailed in this review)#also this book has been pulled from netgalley. ijnam rf sWHEEZING #we are popping the biggest bottles.......#making personal attacks your brand? as a plagiarist? bold.#misogyny mayhew

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