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fideidefenswhore · 1 year ago

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What do you think Alison Weird's personal ranking of the Six Wives is?

God, I hope that's not a typo 😂

This sounds familiar, have I answered this before...? Maybe I need to make a FAQ page.

Can say with fair confidence, because I've read many of her interviews, because apparently I am a masochist that likes to give myself rage headaches, her ranking (from favorite to least is): COA, JS, CParr, Anna of Cleves, KH, and AB.

Funnily enough, I think AB fell and JS rose in her estimation in the last decade or so, in older interviews she really seemed to have more disdain for the latter ( "I wrote a biography of Jane Seymour myself in the 80s, but it wasn’t very long [...] What more is there to say or know about her? I don’t find her a very sympathetic character.") Not to say views can't change, but it's weird in some sense because it seems like her newfound appreciation is not really based on any...new appraisal of evidence? And the same for her newfound disdain (Anne 'loved Elizabeth intensely' --> 'Anne had gender disappointment syndrome', which seems nastily specific, like, even if she did come across contemporary accounts that make it seem like Anne 'fades' a bit after Elizabeth's birth which, it doesn't seem she did, why that in particular and not like, postpartum depression, instead...?)

#i don't think she likes~ kh and similary she seems to intensely dislike both of them on some level for being 'mean' to henry (spare me)#but i mean....she did give her a much more peaceful death than she did anne . like i can't walk away from that thinking anything other #than that she REALLY intensely hates anne #if one had to guess i would say that she has more antipathy reserved for AB > KH as 'heroines' because AB supplanted HER heroine #not to speak of the (transphobic) dead or whatever but i do wonder almost if it's a similar think to mantel...#which was that somehow her hostile perspective on AB got tied up in her mommy issues #just bcus the way she hates anne it's like she reminds her of someone or like anne is someone she knows personally even...#*similarly #*in weir's series of six wives novels. a curse upon whoever gave her than book deal fr and im so serious #i want to go to the sliding doors where that series does not exist almost as much as i want to go to the one without covid #*similar thing #anon #*that #*ill of the #maybe i need to stop trying to elaborate in tags. lordt

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