Elizabeth and Essex
by Lytton Strachey
- Used
- fair
- Paperback
- Condition
- Fair
- ISBN 10
- 0140007679
- ISBN 13
- 9780140007671
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Synopsis
One of the most famous and baffling romances in history-between Elizabeth I, Queen of England and Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex-began in May of 1587, when she was fifty-three and he was just shy of twenty. Their relationship continued until 1601, when the Earl of Essex was beheaded for treason. And, in a succession of brilliant scenes, Strachey portrays the Queen's and the Earl's compelling attraction for on another, their impassioned disagreements, and their mutual contest for power, which led to a final, tragic confrontation. Here we also have superb portraits of influential people of the time: Francis Bacon, Robert Cecil, Walter Raleigh, and other figures of the court who struggled to assert themselves in a kingdom that was primarily defined by her sovereign, and so now seen through history's lens as Elizabethan England.
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- Bookseller
- Book Haven (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1316175
- Title
- Elizabeth and Essex
- Author
- Lytton Strachey
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0140007679
- ISBN 13
- 9780140007671
- Publisher
- Penguin Books 1971 Paperback
- Place of Publication
- Harmondswoth
- This edition first published
- 1971
- Pages
- 191
- Keywords
- History, Royalty
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- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....