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Privy Seal

Ford Madox Ford

  • Novel
  • Book language: English
  • 158 pages

Privy Seal is a historical novel by Ford Madox Ford, the second book in his Fifth Queen trilogy. Set in the court of Henry VIII, it centres on Thomas Cromwell, the Lord Privy Seal, and the young Katharine Howard amid political and religious intrigue. It offers a vivid, psychologically rich portrait of Tudor power struggles.

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Opening of the book

ТО
FRAU LAURA SCHMEDDING
WHO HAS SO OFTEN COMBATED
MY PREJUDICES AND CORRECTED
MY ASSERTIONS
THIS WITH AFFECTION

“Ille potens… et lætus cui licet in diem
Dixisse: Vixi! ...”

Part I
THE RISING SUN

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Contents

  1. Dedication
  2. Epigraph

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