{"id":279,"date":"2014-03-31T21:42:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T21:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/index.php\/2014\/03\/31\/just-a-girl-by-jane-caro\/"},"modified":"2019-12-31T08:17:19","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T21:17:19","slug":"just-a-girl-by-jane-caro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/just-a-girl-by-jane-caro\/","title":{"rendered":"Just a Girl by Jane Caro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we know, there have been many novels and films based on the lives of Henry VIII and his daughter Elizabeth I.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/janecaro.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jane Caro&#8217;s<\/a> book &#8220;Just a Girl&#8221; tears away the cold, often unemotional,  descriptions often found in history books to give a sympathetic and  tender picture of Elizabeth I. The book, written from the point of view  of Elizabeth herself, reads like a thriller without deviating from  actual historical events and happenings. At the same time, many of the  other characters in the book, although well known to the reader from  history books, take on new angles and characteristics as they are  filtered through the eyes of Elizabeth. The fact that the book is in the  &#8216;I&#8217; form allows the reader to come very close to one of history&#8217;s most  important personalities.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-CgwHSPqXKvU\/UylY9a7LZhI\/AAAAAAAABNo\/-0nExOO8kF8\/s1600\/jane.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-CgwHSPqXKvU\/UylY9a7LZhI\/AAAAAAAABNo\/-0nExOO8kF8\/s1600\/jane.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; <span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Photo from www.abc.net.au<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we know, there have been many novels and films based on the lives of Henry VIII and his daughter Elizabeth I.&nbsp;Jane Caro&#8217;s book &#8220;Just a Girl&#8221; tears away the cold, often unemotional, descriptions often found in history books to give a sympathetic and tender picture of Elizabeth I. The book, written from the point &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"readmore-btn\" href=\"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/just-a-girl-by-jane-caro\/\">+<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}