The Private Life of Henry VIII Author:N. Brysson Morrison "A story that continues to fascinate American as well as British readers. N. Brysson Morrison tells the story...does it well, economically and with grace, precisely and without ostentation...the result is all an author could wish: the reader keeps turning the pages." -- N.Y. Sunday Times Book Review — "A sensitively wrought full-scale profile t... more »hat explains without excusing Britain's 16th century monarch and his six wives. Miss Morrison has given us a polished work of historical depth. It may be read with pleasure." -- The Christian Science Monitor
"Each queen - the learned Katherine of Aragon, the vivacious Anne Boleyn, the insipid Jane Seymour, the 'mare'-like Anne of Cleves, the 'rose without a thorn' Katherine Howard, and the serene and delicate Katherine Parr - walks through Miss Morrison's eminently readable biography with the vividness and sharp delineation of a Holbein drawing." -- News Herald« less