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Windsor Castle
William Harrison Ainsworth
Book Overview:
The focus of the novels is on the events surrounding Henry VIII's replacing Catherine of Aragon with Anne Boleyn as his wife. During Henry's pursuit of Boleyn, the novel describes other couples, including the Earl of Surrey and Lady Elizabeth Fitzgerald, a match Henry does not support. However, some of the individuals oppose Henry and his desires for Boleyn, including Thomas Wyat who wants her for himself and Cardinal Wolsey, who uses a maiden of mysterious birth, Mabel Lyndwood, to lure Henry away from Boleyn. [...] Intertwined with the Court is the story of Herne the Hunter, a spirit of Windsor Forest. He is an evil force that seeks to take the souls of various individuals, and Henry tries to stop him, but is never able to do so. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia)
The focus of the novels is on the events surrounding Henry VIII's replacing Catherine of Aragon with Anne Boleyn as his wife. During Henry's pursuit of Boleyn, the novel describes other couples, including the Earl of Surrey and Lady Elizabeth Fitzgerald, a match Henry does not support. However, some of the individuals oppose Henry and his desires for Boleyn, including Thomas Wyat who wants her for himself and Cardinal Wolsey, who uses a maiden of mysterious birth, Mabel Lyndwood, to lure Henry away from Boleyn. [...] Intertwined with the Court is the story of Herne the Hunter, a spirit of Windsor Forest. He is an evil force that seeks to take the souls of various individuals, and Henry tries to stop him, but is never able to do so. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia)
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Community Reviews
A classic historical novel about events in and around Windsor Castle during the time of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. The historic events are heightened dramatically by appearances of a forest demon, Herne the Hunter. The novel closes with the death of Boleyn. Interspersed between the novel's chapt...more
Apparently, Ainsworth was quite the popular author back in his day, and after having read Windsor Castle, I can see both why he was popular and also why he has completely fallen out of favor.
The book is filled with hallmarks of Romanticism. There are luscious descriptions of clothes, the castle i...more
Unintentionally hilarious.
Ainsworth is one of those once-famous writers who, so they say, 'nobody reads any more'. Out of curiosity and contrariness, I thought I'd give him a try, but I really wasn't expecting very much.
Happily, 'Windsor Castle' isn't nearly as bad as I feared it might be. It's a very odd amalgam of melod...more
Well, this was an odd book. I ran across it because I was reading a blog about some of the background characters in British mythology relating to the Green Man, and one of them was Herne the Hunter. This book is on the one hand a historical story covering the period of Henry VIII's courtship of A...more
It would be unfair to give this fewer than three stars, since I did quite enjoy it, but my word Ainsworth didn't know when to stop. There's a good story in here, but he just goes on and on, as if he had a word count to meet -oh, I know, I'll put in a bit more about Herne - and then there's the ce...more
[These notes were made in 1987:]. Had he heard of Dorothy Sayers, Ainsworth might have learned a trick from her and called this "A Romance with historical interruptions." There is, more precisely, one long historical interruption - a centre section which details (à la Tower of London) the history...more