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Your words are not only insulting and hurtful but untrue. "Two pages worth of information" - there are multiple letters transcribed in this book, mostly from the British Library, that were written by Katherine Grey, in her own hand, while in the midst of depression and illness, to Elizabeth I, Robert Dudley and William Cecil during her imprisonment, as well as letters written by her uncle. I am assuming you did not read that far. Your comment that it is 'a money grab' is not only true but defamatory and bordering on libel because it is a gross misrepresentation of the work. It is fine not to enjoy a book but to misrepresent it is another thing. You also did not discuss in your review any of the multiple succession tracts of the 1560s, analysed at length in the book, which are *directly* about Katherine Grey.
I would strongly recommend rethinking how you phrase reviews in the future because accusing an author publicly of writing a book as a 'money grab', assuming that you know their motives for writing, is untrue, defamatory and libellious.
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Jun 06, 2026 04:18AM
Your words are not only insulting and hurtful but untrue. "Two pages worth of information" - there are multiple letters transcribed in this book, mostly from the British Library, that were written by Katherine Grey, in her own hand, while in the midst of depression and illness, to Elizabeth I, Robert Dudley and William Cecil during her imprisonment, as well as letters written by her uncle. I am assuming you did not read that far. Your comment that it is 'a money grab' is not only true but defamatory and bordering on libel because it is a gross misrepresentation of the work. It is fine not to enjoy a book but to misrepresent it is another thing. You also did not discuss in your review any of the multiple succession tracts of the 1560s, analysed at length in the book, which are *directly* about Katherine Grey.
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I would strongly recommend rethinking how you phrase reviews in the future because accusing an author publicly of writing a book as a 'money grab', assuming that you know their motives for writing, is untrue, defamatory and libellious.
