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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 278. Not illustrated. Chapters: Executed English Women, Executed Scottish Women, Executed Welsh Women, Mary, Queen of Scots, Anne Boleyn, Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury, Edith Cavell, Catherine Howard, Lady Jane Grey, Jane Boleyn, Viscountess Rochford, Ruth Ellis, Amelia Dyer, Mary Ann Cotton, Margaret Wilson, Dorothea Waddingham, Mary Dyer, Ursula Kemp, Anne Askew, Catherine Wilson, Elizabeth Brownrigg, Anne Turner, Mary Pearcey, Mary Eastey, Rebecca Nurse, Margaret Clitherow, Bridget Bishop, Minnie Dean, Agnes Potten and Joan Trunchfield, Agnes Sampson, Amelia Sach and Annie Walters, Mary Ann Britland, Mary Carleton, Witches of Belvoir, Mary Morgan, Alice Lisle, Witches of Warboys, Elizabeth Barton, Eleanor Power, Mary Blandy, Joan Bocher, Margaret Ward, Ada Williams, Mary Bateman, Alice Arden, Constantia Jones, Elizabeth Jeffries, Martha Corey, Mary Ansell, Catherine Murphy, Agnes Waterhouse, Janet Horne, Janet, Lady Glamis, Margaret Waters, Sarah Wildes, Edith Thompson, Alice Driver. Excerpt: Anne Boleyn (pronounced or; (c.1501 or 1507 19 May 1536) was Queen of England from 1533 to 1536 as the second wife of King Henry VIII and 1st Marquess of Pembroke in her own right for herself and her descendants. Henry's marriage to Anne, and her subsequent execution, made her a key figure in the political and religious upheaval that was the start of the English Reformation. The daughter of Sir Thomas Boleyn and his wife, Lady Elizabeth Howard, Anne was educated in the Netherlands and France, largely as a maid of honour to Queen Claude of France. She returned to England in early 1522, in order to marry her Irish cousin James Butler; however, the marriage plans ended in failure and she secured a post at court as maid of honour to Queen consort Catherine of Aragon. In 1525, Henry VIII became enamoured of Anne and began pursuing ...
