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Mary, Bloody Mary is the story of Mary Tudor's pre-teen and teenage years written for that age-group. Told from the first-person point of view, Mary tells of Anne Boylen's increasing power over the king, the casting-off of Mary and her mother, the birth and care of Elizabeth and Anne's eventual downfall. The book ends with the marriage of Henry to Jane Seymour, making "Mary, Bloody Mary" an inappropriate title as that nickname was not earned until many years later.
On the whole, it's an fine book to give to early teens who are starting to, or maybe need to be encouraged to, develop an interest in history, the role of women throughout history, and strong female historical figures.


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Mary Bloody Mary Carolyn Meyer 9780613354615 Books Reviews

Most people consider Mary the bloodiest queen in English history, and many people have dubbed her awful names like "the killer queen," but I've never bought those lies. Meyer doesn't either, and she paints a gorgeous portrait of what this girl might have been like. We dive into Mary Tudor's early years, her engagements to men older than her and men so closely related to her that the proposals border on incestuous. She is a girl loved by her father, adored by her mother, and treated as the "pearl of England." Her life is an easy one, until her father's obsession for a son drives him into a relationship with the mysterious Anne Boleyn. Suddenly Mary is reduced to a servant, separated from her mother, stripped of her title, and declared a bastard. She is forced to serve her little half-sister Elizabeth, daughter of Anne, and endure Anne's jealousy. Once a princess, Mary is a servant in her own home. She does pull out in the end, but it is truly a wonder that she did. This gives readers a better picture of why Mary became whom she did, though her reign truly was no bloodier than her father's. It is a great introspective look on "what could've happened" built around the facts we know, and that makes this a truly enjoyable and riveting book. )
History belongs to writers. Mankind has always seen history through the eyes and the imagination of those with the pen. Limited facts are expanded and massaged by those who write, thence somehow become truth. Books, movies, television, develop the belief of reality for those who read. Societies without a written work can, and does, relate their history as they "want" it to be. The american indian lore, and that of most of Africa, grows real through the telling and imagination of the story teller. Reality is probably another matter, so history does belong to the writer.
Carolyn Meyer has taken the skeletal facts and woven wonderful story from much of her own imagination, telling the story through the eyes of a very young girl, born a princess, in sixteenth century England. This young princess sweeps through the magnificent highs of the utmost luxury of the time to the lowest station of a threatened servant. The social standards of the time placed the ultimate power in the hands of the highest royalty. Mary Tudor was caught within that system. Her mother was pushed aside through a selfish and unlawful divorce (unlawful according to the church) leaving Mary Tudor officially a "bastard" and stripped of all royal privilege. Her subsequent roller-coaster life, from the imprisonment of the tower to the throne of England, Is the story that Carolyn Meyer has told so well and beautifully.
Certain personalities, or masks, are assigned to the major players in this story. This establishes the time and place, the voice, by which the author relates her version of reality. The basis for this story is framed by historical fact and decorated by the history of "writers" as is always the case of historical fiction. Believe what you will, but realize much of what you read here is a product of a series of writers' imagination and belief.
This book is among the best and most enjoyable, superbly written, accounts of the reign of Henry VIII, and the immediate years following. Well worth reading and enjoying, but don't lose sight of the genre-historical FICTION.
I know it's hard to separate fact and rumor where the Tudors are concerned, but there's some glaring errors in this book - most notably surrounding Anne Bolelyn's execution. I can forgive the other minor historical transgressions because they are from Mary's POV and she only knew what was told to her. But Anne Bolelyn's execution was described so differently from what other historical texts were reported that it annoyed me and drew me out of an otherwise good story. I did, however, like the story as it made me rethink the story of Mary Tudor, who I can't help but think of every time I order a brunch cocktail. People defend her by saying that she did not spill as much blood as other monarchs, but that is hardly an endorsement of one's character. The author complains that Elizabeth wasn't much better, but author forgets that Elizabeth had several redeeming victories whereas Mary's reign was an ineffectual failure. There was nothing for us to remember her by other than violence. Which is why I actually LIKE the book - it gave me something else to remember her by. Mary definitely pulled the short straw in the Tudor family. The only people that truly loved her were abruptly torn away from her and the next time she heard their names it was only to learn of their horrific ends. So yes, I could see how something in her was broken. Like other reviewers said, I can't FORGIVE her for the bloody reign she is known for, but I can understand it. She wasn't born a monster, but everything that happened in her life surely transpired to make her one.
Mary, Bloody Mary is the story of Mary Tudor's pre-teen and teenage years written for that age-group. Told from the first-person point of view, Mary tells of Anne Boylen's increasing power over the king, the casting-off of Mary and her mother, the birth and care of Elizabeth and Anne's eventual downfall. The book ends with the marriage of Henry to Jane Seymour, making "Mary, Bloody Mary" an inappropriate title as that nickname was not earned until many years later.
On the whole, it's an fine book to give to early teens who are starting to, or maybe need to be encouraged to, develop an interest in history, the role of women throughout history, and strong female historical figures.