Elizabeth, Queen of England
Author | : Neville Williams |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Author | : Neville Williams |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Author | : Carol Greene |
Publisher | : Children's Press(CT) |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780516042145 |
Describes in simple terms the life of Queen Elizabeth I of England.
Author | : Elizabeth I (Queen of England) |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780520241060 |
Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) ruled England for 45 turbulent years, and her reign has come to be seen as a golden age. She exercised supreme authority in a man's world, while remaining intensely feminine. She was Gloriana, the Virgin Queen, but is also held up as a role model for company executives in the twenty-first century. She is a near-legendary figure from a remote past who remains fascinatingly modern. This handsome volume has been published to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Elizabeth I's death in 1603. It illustrates in color and, where possible, in actual size, sixty manuscripts--either by Elizabeth or to her. Each one is accompanied by a running commentary, explaining the document and placing it in its historical context, and selected transcriptions or, where necessary, translations from the originals. Elizabeth was a girl of extraordinary precocity and a brilliant linguist. Her early letters, written in a beautiful italic, are to her forbidding father, Henry VIII, and to her brother and sister, Edward VI and "Bloody" Mary. The very first letter dates from when she was a child of eleven. The last, written nearly 60 years later, is a barely-legible scrawl addressed to her successor, the future James I. The letters from her in-tray are no less extraordinary. Tsar Ivan the Terrible rounds on her in a blind fury after she refuses to marry him. The Earl of Essex, young enough to be her son, pours out declarations of love: a few pages further on is to be found her signed warrant for his execution. There are letters from ministers and galley slaves, spies and traitors, coded letters, warrants for torture, speeches to parliament, and the original--only recently identified--of the most famous of all her utterances: "I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king."
Author | : Christa Jansohn |
Publisher | : LIT Verlag Münster |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
This work marks the 400th anniversary of the death of one of England's greatest monarchs, a highly intelligent and successful ruler. The volume appeals to everyone interested in the charismatic character of Elizabeth I, her time and cultural afterlife. Contributors focus on important aspects of Elizabeth's subtle and resourceful political power and the longstanding struggle she faced at home and abroad as well as the threats posed to her realm. This edition presents a series of essays about fictional representations of Queen Elizabeth I in literature, music, and film. Articles illuminate the fascinating story of her numerous afterlives and their significance for the cultural history of England, its sense of identity and psyche. Essays investigate the ceremony, festivities, and dance practices at her court and bring to life the cultural significance of this colorful and extraordinary monarch. Christa Jansohn is professor of British culture at the University of Bamberg, Germany.
Author | : Jane Resh Thomas |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780395691205 |
A biography of Elizabeth I, Queen of England, from her troubled childhood through her forty year reign.
Author | : Jacob Abbott |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1850 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : |
A biography of Queen Elizabeth I, who, without husband or sons, successfully ruled England for 45 years and made it the most powerful kingdom on the globe.
Author | : Jane Dunn |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 506 |
Release | : 2007-12-18 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0307425746 |
"Superb.... A perceptive, suspenseful account." --The New York Times Book Review "Dunn demythologizes Elizabeth and Mary. In humanizing their dynamic and shifting relationship, Dunn describes it as fueled by both rivalry and their natural solidarity as women in an overwhelmingly masculine world." --Boston Herald The political and religious conflicts between Queen Elizabeth I and the doomed Mary, Queen of Scots, have for centuries captured our imagination and inspired memorable dramas played out on stage, screen, and in opera. But few books have brought to life more vividly the exquisite texture of two women’s rivalry, spurred on by the ambitions and machinations of the forceful men who surrounded them. The drama has terrific resonance even now as women continue to struggle in their bid for executive power. Against the backdrop of sixteenth-century England, Scotland, and France, Dunn paints portraits of a pair of protagonists whose formidable strengths were placed in relentless opposition. Protestant Elizabeth, the bastard daughter of Anne Boleyn, whose legitimacy had to be vouchsafed by legal means, glowed with executive ability and a visionary energy as bright as her red hair. Mary, the Catholic successor whom England’s rivals wished to see on the throne, was charming, feminine, and deeply persuasive. That two such women, queens in their own right, should have been contemporaries and neighbours sets in motion a joint biography of rare spark and page-turning power.
Author | : June Eding |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 2008-07-03 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780448448398 |
Our bestselling series is fit for a queen! The life of Queen Elizabeth I was dramatic and dangerous: cast out of her father's court at the age of three and imprisoned at nineteen, Elizabeth was crowned queen in 1558, when she was only twenty-five. A tough, intelligent woman who spoke five languages, Elizabeth ruled for over forty years and led England through one of its most prosperous periods in history. Over 80 illustrations bring 'Gloriana' and her court to life.
Author | : Jacob Abbott |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 203 |
Release | : 2022-05-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Queen Elizabeth is a biography by Jacob Abbott. An engaging account of the life and character of the most notable English ruler that ever existed, Queen Elizabeth I.
Author | : Folger Shakespeare Library |
Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
The Folger Shakespeare Library includes among its holdings the largest collection of materials in North America relating to Elizabeth I, including 38 documents signed by the queen. On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of Elizabeth's death in March 1603, the Folger Library mounted an ambitious exhibition of more than one hundred books, manuscripts, and works of art from its collections. stunning detail, as affectionate stepdaughter and censorious cousin, as humanist prince, as powerful and often capricious patroness, and as a private person. She was the centre not only of national culture but also of a vibrant court culture with complex ritual practices such as elaborate New Year's gift exchanges and summertime progresses through the countryside. Her self-fashioning literally involved the use of fashion. She dressed to be seen; her clothes made a statement about her power as a female ruler and about the stability and strength of her nation. The many portraits of Elizabeth which survive, including the 1579 Sieve portrait featured on the cover, suggest the complex interplay between the queen's politics of self-display and her powerful vanity. Sheila Ffolliott, and Barbara Hodgdon explore Elizabeth's life, her books, her portraits, the many documents in the Folger Library relating to her, and her continuing charismatic power in British and American culture.