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Documents of Lady Jane Grey: Nine Days Queen of England 1553 Paperback – March 3, 2008

by James D. Taylor Jr. (Author)
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Seeking to inform our understanding of one of history's most poignant, little-known heroines, Taylor has pulled together all of Lady Jane's literary remains, including some which may be apocryphal.
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    208 pages
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    English
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    Algora Publishing
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    March 3, 2008
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    5.5 x 0.52 x 8.5 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0875863345
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Henry VIII’s ill-fated great-niece left a modest collection of personal papers, assembled here for the first time by independent scholar Taylor. The book includes a recently discovered cache of undated letters, as well as missives about Jane penned by others and rendered here, for the most part, in modern English. Taylor succeeds in furnishing insights into the remarkable mind of this young, 16th-century Protestant noblewoman, whose piety (she began corresponding with religious scholars at age 13) sustained her through a fatal political crisis. Jane was well behind in the line of succession for the English crown, but she did not count on the royal ambitions of John Dudley—duke of Northumberland, the real power behind Edward’s throne—and her devious parents. In 1553, Dudley, determined to preserve Protestantism—and his authority—married Jane to his son and convinced the dying Edward to name Jane his heir, supplanting Mary, a devout Catholic. But the coup failed. The following year, 16-year-old Jane (who once wrote that "the bare possibility of being a Queen, is a source of uneasiness to me"), along with her husband, father and Dudley, were beheaded. Though Taylor’s effort to catalog these poignant documents is impressive, the book is ultimately disappointing. In his introduction, Taylor promises to clear up the historical record, but readers learn little about the "inconsistencies" he noted in other books or how this work corrects them. In addition, he skimps on detailed explanations of the period’s political events, and fails to sketch satisfying portraits of major personalities other than Jane. Nevertheless, serious students of English history will relish the new material offered here, which is best appreciated in tandem with works that provide a fuller overview of the political, cultural and religious dramas that enveloped Tudor England.)
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I had hoped to have all the 'Lane Letters' in an appendix, but my publisher chose to include them in the body of the book. Perhaps someday, I will redo this book.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Algora Publishing (March 3, 2008)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 208 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0875863345
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0875863344
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.6 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.52 x 8.5 inches
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James D. Taylor Jr.

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Mr. Taylor is a well-published independent research scholar with an academic press in New York and was awarded an Associate Fellowship with the Royal Historical Society, University College London, for his literary contributions to early English literature. Each publication is comprised of facts as history has recorded them. These books are not embellished or contain enhanced facts, but only as history has recorded them. These projects take years to complete, and sometimes a piece of information can be overlooked: "I am only human." Thousands of these books have been sold and reside in colleges and universities, and Mr. Taylor has received many encouraging comments that reward his time and efforts. The goal of Mr. Taylor is to provide all known and recorded facts in one publication. References he values indicate that he has accomplished that. His sources of information are only as accurate as how history records them. Early documents are not embellished; there are no readers to capture for ratings. Many pieces of information are distorted in modern times. Please review the source and be a part of the solution, not the problem. Mr. Taylor thanks everyone for their encouragement and comments. "I grow and learn from them." 

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Daisy
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent. This is a fascinating book
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Mike Bayus
2.0 out of 5 stars Searching for the real Jane, but perpetuating the fake one
Reviewed in the United States on May 19, 2015
Any study of Lady Jane Grey's life is hampered by the dual obstacles of a scarcity of original documentary evidence and an abundance of dubious anecdotes and partisan secondary sources.
In his book, "Documents of Lady Jane Grey, Nine Days Queen Of England, 1553", Mr. Taylor has attempted to tell her real story by collecting all of the literary remains of Lady Jane Grey together in one place. His zeal in so doing, in the opinion of this reviewer, has gotten the better of him.
Mr. Taylor writes:
"Among the gems I uncovered, and perhaps the most valuable, is a collection of letters that William Lane purchased from an unidentified source while he was at the Minerva Press."
Gems?
Most valuable?
That is hardly the case when one considers that the Minerva Press might be thought of as the "Harlequin Books" of the 18th century.
It is the opinion of this reviewer that the so called Lane Letters are the work of one author, and not the Lady Jane Grey herself, or anyone conected with her.
I believe that all of the Lane Letters, from, too, and about the Lady Jane Grey are composed, (or one might say, invented), by one person.
When one reads the Letters that we know to be in Janes own hand, even the gushing fan letters that she wrote to the continental religious reformer Heinrich Bullinger, (p. 9-15 Harding 4) we get an idea of her stile of writing, and, one might say, how she thinks.
The point is very clearly and startlingly brought home, when one compares the Letter to her sister Catherine that the Lady Jane wrote on the night before she was to die, (p. 130-131 Pearson 133) and a supposed second letter to her sister (p. 131-132 Lane, Vol. II 98).
When one reads the first letter, one can see that it is "pure Jane".
Her syntax, the things that are important to her, yes, how she thinks.
The second letter is replete with phrases like:
"The last awful scene, my ever dear Catherine approaches!"
and:
"Adhere, my Catherine, to the practice of virtue, and may thy
sister be enabled, by her example, to animate thee to persevere".
It is unlikely that Jane would have ever referred to herself in the third person. I can't imagine Jane ever calling her sister "my Catherine".
Lastly, if you will forgive a subjective observation, I would have rather spent my time reading the letters that Jane's tutor John Aylmer wrote to Heinrich Bullinger, in which Aylmer asked Bullinger to write to Jane and to caution her against spending more time with music than with her academic and religious studies.
Instead, Mr. Taylor devotes considerable space to a letter from a nonexistant Anne Grey, (there just is no such person), about a Lady Laurana de M-. (p. 59-69 Lane 114)
Doubtful that she ever existed either.
It is this reviewers belief that the "Lane Letters" are fiction and not fact.
Other than that, it is nice to have all of Lady Janes Letters collected together in one place so that one can read and refer to them easily.
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Fred Johnson
4.0 out of 5 stars No embellishments on known facts, a refreshing change.
Reviewed in the United States on January 19, 2007
As I read several other reviewers here, I was not able to locate their names as authors of anything moreless on Lady Jane Grey. Perhaps they should direct their energy in such a publication. I will admit that I was skeptical about this book after reading the contrasting feedback left by other readers but after completing the book I feel that Mr. Taylor should be commended for several reasons. First and perhaps that most important to a retired professor of European history as myself is that Mr. Taylor did not follow the same format as many "historians" do by using colorful embellishments to retell a few known facts. The second being that Mr. Taylor also refrained from criticizing other author's lack of information or misuse of. It is clear that Mr. Taylor only recites the sources that he felt were the most accurate. I have learned in 30 years of teaching college level classes that if you present 10 people with 10 primary and secondary sources that you will have 14 different opinions about them. I feel that Taylor's use of the Lane Letters is questionable and after contacting the author, he explained that the publisher omitted a sentence in the introduction indicating the use and source of letters. Nevertheless, the Lane Letters should have been placed in a separate chapter away from the main body of the book, but when they are read as the author intended, they are entertaining. Ill regardless of the rather harsh criticism left by another reader, I would have used the book in my classes if I were still teaching. Publishing Weekly left an accurate feedback and I do feel that there is a fresh approach here that does belong in a library. From what I can see, Mr. Taylor is the first to present all known information about this young lady. I look forward to a revision.
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Jstephan Edwards
1.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining, but useless as legitimate history
Reviewed in the United States on March 16, 2006
Mr Taylor has clearly spent a great deal of time and effort in producing this volume. Unfortunately the result is useless for anything other than entertainment. It cannot in any way be called legitimate "history." The book is replete with flaws, errors and omissions. Mr Taylor relies very heavily on a late-eigtheenth century collection of "letters" published by William Lane through Minerva Press. The collection is tellingly entitled "Lady Jane Grey: An Histoircal TALE"..."tale" being the operative word. Mr Taylor notes that the Lane collection had been "lost" to historians for over 200 years until he "re-discovered" it. There is a good reason why the "letters" were "lost": any trained historian would immediately recognize them as complete fiction. The "letter" from Henry Grey to "Lord Protector" Northumberland, for example, reveals the fiction (p. 18-20, Lane Letter 86). Northumberland was never titled "Lord Protector," and Henry Grey would never have addressed him as such. Any trained historian familiar with the Tudor era would have known this. But Mr Taylor is apparently not a trained historian. This is evident from his bibliography. He has "primary" and "secondary" sources utterly confused. Further, he cites works such as Jane's prayerbook by using a secondary source (a later Harley Manuscript). The original prayerbook is Harley MS 2342, and has been microfilmed. That microfilm is available in many US libraries. Why not look at a microfilm of the original rather than a printed transcription of a later manuscript that simply describes the original? A serious error. And finally, in his bibliography he lists a work as having been written by Guglielmo Facciotti. In actuality, Facciotti was a PRINTER, not an author. He was active in Rome ca. 1592-1637. The AUTHOR of the work cited is actually Giovannni Raviglio-Rosso. Read this book for what it is: a compilation of factual AND FICTIONAL documents that take Jane Grey as their subject. But for legitimate ("real") history, look elsewhere. This book is a perfect example of why amateur historians and sloppy publishers should never be brought together. The result is a complete mess, and leaves readers completely misinformed and confused...and legitimate history teachers scrambling to pick up the pieces.
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