BOOK: Mary, bloody Mary by Meyer

[Frederick Muller <fmuller@TELLURIAN.NET>]

Meyer, Carolyn._Mary, bloody Mary._Scholastic, 2000
[043922756-9]
This book tells the tale of the turbulent youth of Mary, the first
daughter of Henry VIII.  (Please note I can not comment on the
accuracy of the history in the book.)  This story tells what it must
have been like for individuals and whole nations to live (or die) at
the whim of a King with absolute power.  The book opens with
Mary as Princess but when Henry VIII divorces her mother, Mary
loses her title at the age of 10 and is then forced to be nurse maid
to the newly born Elizabeth of Ann Boleyn.  This story ends with
the execution of Anne Boleyn but the reader is satisfied with
historical notes at the end showing how Mary became the queen
nicknamed, "Bloody Mary."  The title of the 227 page book has
nothing to do with the actual story but I found it to be a good read --
a period of history I never studied.

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