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Margaret Beaufort

Mother of the Tudor Dynasty

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Margaret Beaufort

By: Elizabeth Norton
Narrated by: Debra Burton
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Summary

Born in the midst of the Wars of the Roses, Margaret Beaufort became the greatest heiress of her time. She survived a turbulent life, marrying four times and enduring imprisonment before passing her claim to the crown of England to her son, Henry VII, the first of the Tudor monarchs.

©2013 Amberley Publishing (P)2013 Amberley Publishing 16th Century Europe Great Britain Historical Modern Politics & Activism Renaissance Royalty Women Tudor History
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This is a period I know well and wanted to learn more about the title character. The blurb was promising, the reading of it, appalling. Constant stumbling over words, emphasis on wrong words, sentences didn't flow, mis-pronunciations, general lack of fluency and energy. Reminded me of a poor reader in school, just saying the words, not reading them for pleasure. Quality of sound was abysmal. I thought there was something wrong with my sound system but no, just a job done on the cheap. Have ordered the book to read myself and returned the audio version.

Frustrating listen

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L reasonably interesting biography, And always good to read biographies of the forgotten women that are so important to history, however this book was not as well written as I would have hoped. It didn’t flow,, and felt a little bit machinelike.

However what really spoiled it for me was the appalling narration: so many words were mispronounced (including common ones: Ely, Corfe, Lancaster, Southwark). It’s extremely frustrating when I narrator doesn’t bother to learn standard pronunciation, especially when the words are repeated regularly throughout the book. It also sounded a touch robotic with wrong emphasis in many places.

If you like the topic, then the book is worth a read. But I absolutely do not recommend listening to the audible version.

appalling narration

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the subject is fastinating. Margret Beaufort is one of the most interesting women in British history and one of the least known. Unfortunatly this biography is rather academic in nature with long passages of original medevil language, The narrator could also have been better, she appears to have a throat problem and struggles with her pronunciation.

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Being new to Audible and having been introduced to audio books by a 19 hour flawless reading of a Bill Bryson book by a professional actor I was a bit taken aback by the quality of the narration here where barely a sentence went by without a fluff or a gulp. I found it quite off putting. I’m not sure the frequent, long winded and difficult to understand quotations of old English did much to help the flow of the narrative either. Overall though a reasonable overview of the subject.

Poorly narrated

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A poorly produced, the sound quality is woeful, and dreadfully narrated production. The narration is poorly paced, badly pronounced, and unsympathetic to the text. Incorrect emphasis and badly placed pauses leave the listener bemused and disappointed. An injustice that the author should feel aggrieved by.

Injustice

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