Virtue Betray'd: women writing Anne Boleyn in the Long Eighteenth Century

Stephanie Russo

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-22344-1_4

Virtue Betray'd: women writing Anne Boleyn in the Long Eighteenth Century

Stephanie Russo

Department of English

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The immediate posthumous reputation of Anne Boleyn was largely inscribed by men whose religious and political interests shaped their representations of her personality, relationship with Henry VIII, and the causes of her downfall. From the Catholic propaganda of Nicholas Sander to the Protestant hagiography of John Foxe, a vision of Boleyn as either monstrous or saintly emerged. However, as women started to write about the rise and fall of Anne Boleyn, a more complex figure emerged, prefiguring contemporary representations of Anne Boleyn as a proto-feminist figure trapped and preyed upon in a rigidly patriarchal world. This chapter compares a number of accounts of Anne Boleyn’s life by women in the long eighteenth century: Madame d’Aulnoy, Sarah Fielding, and Mary Hays.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Remembering Queens and Kings of Early Modern England and France
Subtitle of host publication	reputation, reinterpretation, and reincarnation
Editors	Estelle Paranque
Place of Publication	Cham
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Chapter	4
Pages	51-71
Number of pages	21
ISBN (Electronic)	9783030223441
ISBN (Print)	9783030223434
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22344-1_4
Publication status	Published - 2019

Publication series

Name	Queenship and Power
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan

Keywords

Anne Boleyn
historical fiction
eighteenth-century literature
women's history
Feminist history
early modern studies

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Virtue Betray'd: women writing Anne Boleyn in the Long Eighteenth Century. / Russo, Stephanie.
Remembering Queens and Kings of Early Modern England and France: reputation, reinterpretation, and reincarnation. ed. / Estelle Paranque. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. p. 51-71 (Queenship and Power).

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