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Philippa Gregory Watches As Her Bestseller 'the Other Boleyn Girl' Gets The Hollywood Treatment

Posted at 7:01PM Wednesday 20 Feb 2008

Every historical fiction or drama is the author's own recipe of three key ingredients. The mixture is always the same: historical research (anything from a pinch to a peck) the writer's prejudices and opinions (conscious and murkily unconscious) and the conventions of the genre. I have just had the thought-provoking experience of seeing my historical fiction, The Other Boleyn Girl, be adapted into someone else's historical drama and it has persuaded me to think about history, novels and film - their progenitors and ownership.

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