Catherine Anne Warfield met with strong reception. After the Civil War, Warfield published eight more novels, all under her own name. The two most popular were "Ferne Fleming" (1877) and its sequel "The Cardinal's Daughter" (1877); however, no work gained the same degree of success as her first novel. She died in 1877. Walker Percy's novel "Lancelot" bears a resemblance to "The Household of Bouverie." Despite Walker's disclaimer, both the Percy biographer Bertram Wyatt-Brown and his nephew William Armstrong Percy, III believe that he based the novel, so different from his others, on his predecessor's work. Catherine Anne Warfield Catherine Anne Warfield (née
Anne of the Thousand Days Anne refuses, saying that she would rather die than betray their daughter. Henry slaps her before telling her that her disobedience will mean her death. Moving back to 1536, Henry decides to execute Anne. A few days later, Anne is taken to the scaffold and beheaded by a French swordsman. Henry rides off to marry Jane Seymour and the film's final shot is of their young daughter, Elizabeth (Amanda Jane Smythe), toddling alone in the garden as she hears the cannon firing to announce her mother's death. Before the credits roll in this scene, Anne's voice is heard reciting a