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"Alison Weir wrote a great Six Wives of Henry Viii (don't confuse with Antonia Fraser's). In it she talked about how the more hysterical and insecure Anne became, the more shrill she got about Thomas More."

yes so did david starkey and his book is supposed to have been more accurate according to the write up he got, i myself have both and am a little disappointed at weirs naive beleifs when writing the book, she was highly influenced by the old historian writer A strickland of the early 1900's who wrote against anne, encouraged that george was gay and beleived that K howard did indeed have an affair, starkey points out more realistic facts and evidence and does not paint anne the evil katherine and jane hating wench that she was so called supposed to be

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I checked on Amazon...its on preorder.

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"That's pretty much what I've heard. So little is known of Jane Parker that filling a book about her would be difficult, at least if it's non-fiction, so it relies a lot on what Jane may have seen and done, rather than what she is known to have seen and done."

The thing is, I found after reading her notes at the end of the book which I've finished, that Fox is a meticulous researcher It's just that except for the trials of Anne (and she really wasn't mentioned much in that one; her involvement was limited apparently to relating to Cromwell uner questioning the conversation with her husband George in which he mentioned that Anne had told her the king was impotent.) she really did not have that much importance. If George had not read the charge aloud at his trial, which he was cautioned not to do, it was thought that he might have been pardoned.
Jane's early life is undocumented. Even after going to court, she is mentioned only occasionally in documents as one in a list of occasional particpants in one event or another. Her possessions were inventoried by the King's agents after the execution of her husband. It is unknown what she retained, although her suit for her enjointure is after the execution and its results are a matter of record. She did manage to retain her place at court and had a larger role in the Catherine Howard brouhaha as the abettor of Catherine's adultery with Thomas Culpepper and it is here that she is documented. It as the abettor that she was executed and this on which her unsavoury reputation was built. She is buried in St. Peter ad Vincula with Catherine Howard. There is nothing that gives a sense of her as a person. There just wasn't enough primary information to justify a book. You will find out as much about Jane by reading a book about Anne Boleyn or Catherine Howard.
I went to the Amazon.com site after finishing the book ( I never do it before because I want to read the book and form my own opinion.) and read reviews.Many of the reviewers agree with my assessment of the book as fluff, but since it deals with the Tudor court in a nonfiction way, I'll keep it in my library for the scant documentation of a relatively minor character that it offers.

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