Privy Seal: His Last Venture

"Privy Seal: His Last Venture" by Ford Madox Ford is the story of a revisionist depiction of Katherine Howard as a teenage polymath, an avid student of classical literature. She seems to calmly accept that her exceptional beauty captivates all the men around her and hopes to use this, in combination with her learning and her piety, to restore the old faith in Henry VIII's realm. This book shows how bright eyes intentions can lead to misfortune and misadventure, but how that doesn't have to dampen one's spirits.