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{PDF} Young and Damned and Fair: the Life and Tragedy of Catherine YOUNG AND DAMNED AND FAIR: THE LIFE AND TRAGEDY OF CATHERINE HOWARD AT THE COURT OF HENRY VIII PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Gareth Russell | 512 pages | 12 Jan 2017 | HarperCollins Publishers | 9780008128272 | English | London, United Kingdom Adam Kay shortlisted for Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize | The Bookseller But there's no agenda here: Russell neither seeks to restore Catherine's good name at the expense of the various men who abused and exploited her, nor does he slander hers and dismiss her on account of her actions at Lambeth and later at court. Instead Russell truly seeks to consider Catherine objectively and carefully and come to understand her, and that he does so means we do so as well, and all the better than I was consistently entertained and informed throughout. Russell is able to situate Catherine's circumstances and character against the larger backdrop of daily life and expectations for the aristocrats and courtiers of Tudor England, and brings forth a fully imagined world with its rules and laws, writ and unspoken and revised, made by God, man, and sometimes both, and how and why Catherine's eventual downfall could only come to pass from a particular set of political and social circumstances of Henry VIII's court. And as good as his early chapters are, tracing Catherine's early childhood and coming of age and early predilections for lightly bending or bucking the established codes of conduct, his reconstruction of the whirlwind of activity and investigation is absolutely fantastic. While Catherine shared the fate of her cousin, Anne Boleyn, and the downfalls of both queens cost men their lives, Russell shows just how diligently and thoroughly and carefully the king's counsellors proceeded with the inquest into Catherine's relations with Dereham, and later with Culpeper, in stark contrast to the Boleyn proceedings in which by some contemporary and most modern sources show just how politically engineered Anne's downfall was. And even then, without a retroactively applying attainder that applied to Catherine's actions and more insidiously her intentions, Catherine may never have been executed. We also get fascinating insights into Catherine's character, something rarely introduced beyond the broad biographical strokes in many other popular histories of the period or Tudor fiction. We see Catherine's extreme aversion to being slighted, her preferred role as pursued and then empowered to end her own affairs. We see Catherine's insecurities about performing the role and duties as queen to perfection, especially since Henry's fourth wife Anne of Cleves still lives and somewhat intimidates and threatens her, and her devotion to ensuring all her public displays are executed flawlessly and gracefully. We see how a girl of little personal means though with a good family name immediately pays back Dereham as soon as she begins to advance at court, wishing to no longer be in debt and release ties to him and move forward to her new place in the world. We see a bit of her stubborn and cruel side in her interactions with Lady Mary, Henry's daughter, and Catherine has two of Mary's maids dismissed again a bit outside prevailing social codes of conduct. And we also see her wish to be liked and well-regarded, and the eventual fragile truce and exchange of presents between Catherine and Mary nod to that as well. Catherine Howard is fully realized in Russell's hands: a woman in a difficult age, a woman of an important aristocratic family but neither a willing tool nor an innocent pawn of their plots for power, and her downfall a thing of circumstance, bad luck, and poor decision making in one: Russell neither blames nor absolves her, but shows perfectly how truly tragic Catherine's tale is, and how difficult it was to thrive and survive some of the schizophrenic political winds of the time and political and personal will of the king for a flawed human like Catherine. I'd love to read future biographies by Russell, whether Tudor centric or otherwise, and heartily recommend this book to Tudor enthusiasts looking for something new, authoritative and truly objective, in a time where so many books come with preconceived notions and evidence is outlined to reinforce existing prejudices or stacked to support one theory above all: instead take the journey with Russell and come to know Catherine Howard in life and death. View all 20 comments. This man child of a king has discarded precious wives like used candy wrappers, and keeps his court in a state of fear. He rewards greatly but punishes in horrific ways. One probably would not be reading this unless they were a Tudor fan or have a interest in this much married King and his unfortunate wives. Catherine Howard was the last to lose her head, but why 3. Catherine Howard was the last to lose her head, but why she did, when the King was so obviously besotted, the things she did wrong and if in anyway her fate could have had a different ending is the subject of this book. It is well done, almost exhaustively so, many details, at times I thought too many as the author takes many side roads, exhaling the background of anyone important that came in contact with her whether they led to her downfall or not. There were some new details, things I hadn't read previously, some new ways of looking at things, so this was well worth the read. Liked how the author explained the political intrigues at the time, Catherine's daily life, and her childhood. A childhood, which in the end, her poor decisions or youthful mistakes, would prove to be impossible to overcome. A good, solid addition to the Tudor lexicon. ARC from Simon and Schuster. View all 8 comments. Feb 20, Kathryn rated it it was amazing. But I've enjoyed reading Gareth Russell's blog and one or two of his previous books, so when I received an advance copy of Young, Damned and Fair thank you to the publisher! I decided to give it a try, and I'm so glad I did. Russell has that quality I so love in historical biographers of being even-handed and non-judgemental, and while he's clearly sympathetic to Catherine, he doesn't go too far in the opposite direction and gush all over her or act as though she was some kind of perfect saint. He also has a knack of looking at what seem to be well-established 'facts' with a fresh and original perspective. Things you think you know about Catherine, such as her relationships with Manox and Dereham or her presumed foolish habit of taking people who knew too much about said relationships into her household as queen, are examined and dissected and shown to be rather less than certain 'facts' after all. I do love biographies that demolish long-held and cherished myths about historical figures as fiction, or at least as exaggeration. As well as being a remarkably detailed biography of Catherine - my goodness, I've learnt so much about her and decided I like her a great deal, when previously I was completely 'meh' - Russell's work is a vivid portrayal of the world she lived in, the high society of Tudor England with its obsession with etiquette, ritual and formality, a world in the throes of religious reformation, the fascinating and frightening later years of Henry VIII's reign. Russell has also done a considerable amount of research on Queen Catherine's household, much of it contained in an appendix, which I'm sure will be of great value to future writers and researchers. There's also a very long and thorough bibliography, and everything is scrupulously footnoted proper footnotes with actual page numbers so you can check the sources yourself. In short, it's rigorously academic but also highly readable; it's not often I stay up late into the night to read non-fiction because I can't bear to put it down, but I did with this one. Young, Damned and Fair is everything a historical biography should be. Highly recommended. View all 6 comments. May 26, Louise rated it it was amazing Shelves: british- bio-hist , biography. Catherine was then sent as a ward to the estate of her step-grandmother to be prepared for court life. By day she learned the art of conversation, music, protocol, obedience and ceremony. Other young wards lived there too in close quarters; their evenings were unsupervised. Catherine was beautiful and popular. It was here, in the care of the Duchess of Norfolk, that the seeds for her rise and downfall were sown. This teenager had a household of over staff. She had 6 or was it 8? She probably knew little of the varying strategic importance of Cleves or of Archbishop Crammer motives. Russell introduces new to me elements: He ties the Cromwell downfall to the Howards and that some of the blame fell on Catherine. In many places Russell interjects the distrust people had for Henry and his cruelty. On the last page Russell calls Catherine's career a "window into the mesmerizing brutality of Henrican England. After the Pilgrimage of Grace, Henry thought he could build support by bringing the court and a military display to the area. While there he had hoped to meet the King of Scotland his nephew but James was coy. Russell shows how they traveled, what they brought, the game they hunted and the many places they stayed. Some who testified to avoid torture were rewarded with beheading.
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