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This category is for sites dedicated to the reviews of literary works produced by British author, Alison Weir.

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• Alison Weir - Innocent Traitor: A Novel of Lady Jane Grey

  http://www.epinions.com/reviews/Book_Innocent_Traitor_A_Novel_of_Lady_Jane_Grey_Alison_Weir
  Reviews of Innocent Traitor: A Novel of Lady Jane Grey. Overall Rating: 4.5 stars from 4 consumer reviews.

• Alison Weir on LibraryThing

  http://www.librarything.com/author/weiralison
  Offers reviews of the author's works.

• Book Review: Alison Weir's The Lady Elizabeth

  http://www.curledup.com/ladyeliz.htm
  Indulging in some fictional legerdemain, the author has crafted an intriguing protagonist, her destiny writ large long before she ascends the throne after her unhappy sister’s death. By Luan Gaines.

• Carla Nayland Book Review: Innocent Traitor, by Alison Weir

  http://www.carlanayland.org/reviews/innocent_traitor.htm
  Innocent Traitor does an excellent job of conveying the sense of Jane as a political pawn.

• Historical Boys: Review of Alison Weir's "Innocent Traitor"

  http://historicalboys.blogspot.com/2007/11/review-of-alison-weirs-innocent-traitor.html
  Readers of historical fiction should not miss this compelling debut by one of England's foremost authorities on the Tudors - a tale of grandeur, betrayal and innocence, framed by one woman's journey from throne to scaffold. By C.W. Gortner.

• Nashville Scene - The Child Who Would Be Queen

  http://www.nashvillescene.com/nashville/the-child-who-would-be-queen/Content?oid=1196844
  Alison Weir takes on, yet again, the story of England’s first Queen Elizabeth utilizing viewpoint of an omniscient narrator and employing dialogue stylized for the period. By Lacey Galbraith.

• New York Times: Sibling Rivalry

  http://www.nytimes.com/1996/08/04/books/sibling-rivalry.html?fta=y
  Like anthropology, history and biography can demonstrate unfamiliar ways of feeling and being. Alison Weir's sympathetic collective biography ''The Children of Henry VIII'' does just that, reminding us that human nature has changed, and for the better. By Naomi Bliven.

• NYTimes: Queen Isabella - Femme Fatale

  http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/16/books/review/16becker.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&
  Weir is clearly at home trolling ancient archives for the housekeeping accounts, letters and chronicles that yield clues about 14th-century misbehavior. By Alida Becker.

• ReadingGroupGuides.com - Henry VIII by Alison Weir

  http://www.readinggroupguides.com/reviews/henry-viii-the-king-and-his-court
  Offers synopsis, critical praise and questions for discussion.

• Reviews: Henry VIII: King and Court by Alison Weir

  http://www.theguardian.com/books/2001/jul/21/historybooks.highereducation
  Alison Weir has added to the large pile of lives of Henry VIII. Founded on diligent reading, hers is a great pudding of a book, which will do no harm to those who choose to read it.

• The Boston Globe: A Tudor and a Tortoise, Both in Fine Voice

  http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2007/02/25/a_tudor_and_a_tortoise_both_in_fine_voice/
  In giving narrative voice to her subjects Weir brings us into emotional contact with them in a way that an unadorned historical account does not. We feel, rather than merely acknowledge, that these crimes and machinations were the actual doings of real individuals and that the hard life those callous schemers created for Jane in particular was really lived and brutally ended. By Katherine A. Powers.

• The View From The Foothills: Eleanor Of Aquitaine: A Life, by Alison Weir

  http://www.foothills.wjduquette.com/blog/archives/351
  Weir makes very clear what is known fact and what is supposition in her biography and where sources give no information about Eleanor, she fills in the gaps with what is known about Henry II. By Deb English.

• WashingtonPost.com: The Nine Days' Queen

  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/01/AR2007030102101.html
  After publishing 10 works of history about the kings and queens of England, Alison Weir has come over to the dark side and written a novel. By Ron Charles.

 

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