The name of the English-language writer M. Crone could not be found either in the Encyclopedia Britannica, or in the five-volume History of English Literature, or even in the US Library of Congress. The only writer, the author's namesake, the Englishman John Crowne (1641–1712), did not write such a work. In this regard, it is worth saying a few words about the publisher of this book, published in 1879. Mikhail Nikolaevich Voronov (1851-?) - editor and publisher of the magazine "Emerald", which was a collection of translated novels, travels and stories, mostly by minor writers; was published in Moscow, 6 times a year, from 1878 to 1882. It remains to be assumed that either the author of the novel was truly “minor” to the point of complete obscurity, or there is a literary hoax when the publisher passes off his own work as a foreign translation.Nevertheless, the novel “The Execution of Queen Anne,” whose author is listed as M. Crone, was popular in Russia at the end of the 19th century. and was reprinted several times. It tells the story of the fate of the provincial palace harlot Anne Boleyn, who, thanks to her treachery and debauchery, became the Queen of England for a short time, only to be in turn betrayed, deposed and executed by her young rival, the beautiful Seymour and her once beloved husband, Henry VIII.