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Mr Taylor has clearly spent a great deal of time and effort in producing this volume. Unfortunately the result is largely useless for anything other than entertainment. It cannot in any way be called legitimate "history." The book is, in my opinion, an amateurish mish-mash of authentic and fictional sources that serves only to confuse and mislead any unsuspecting reader seeking to investigate the life and times of Lady Jane Grey. Mr Taylor relies very heavily, for example, on a supposed ?most valuable ... collection of letters" published in 1791 by Minerva Press, though he seems not to have adequately assessed the origins of the ?letters,? a collection tellingly entitled Lady Jane Grey: An Historical Tale in Two Volumes." "Tale" is the significant word here. Most trained historians can and would, after only the most basic research into their origin, immediately recognize the letters as complete fiction. They constitute what is known today as an epistolary novel: that is, a novel constructed in the form of a series of private letters, often using real historical figures as their protagonists. Mr Taylor, a maintenance man in an auto parts factory, asserts that ?no evidence suggests the letters are false? [Taylor, 183], perhaps because he is not a trained historian. Most persons with a more-than-passing knowledge of mid-Tudor England could quickly spot the many errors contained in the letters, including but not limited to incorrect titles of address and reference to non-existent persons. Read Mr Taylor's this book for what it is: a compilation of mostly fictional documents that take Jane Grey as their subject. But for legitimate ("real") history, look elsewhere.
