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Book Synopsis THE PRIVATE LIFE OF THE VIRGIN QUEEN by : WILLIAM COMYNS BEAUMONT
Download or read book THE PRIVATE LIFE OF THE VIRGIN QUEEN written by WILLIAM COMYNS BEAUMONT and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-09-14 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Elizabeth the First and her two secret sons as told in the ciphers of Francis Bacon, concealed within the plays he and his friends wrote under the name of 'Shakespeare'. The original Royal Shakespeare Company, in fact!
Download or read book The Sister Queens written by Justin Scott and published by Severn House Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2024-02-06 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two rival queens. An infamous playwright. And a deadly plot for the crown. London, 1600. With no legitimate heir to Queen Elizabeth's throne, and no clear successor with her modern vision of a civilization that thrives in peace and diversity, England is in a supremely perilous moment. Elizabeth's foes understand the power of a poet's voice to shape popular opinion, and force esteemed playwright William Shakespeare to write a script detailing the history of Queen Elizabeth and the catholic Mary Queen of Scots that will tumble the nation into civil war. Faced with a terrible dilemma, Will must navigate a dangerous path through the corridors of the wealthy, the refuse-filled warrens of London and the byzantine world of Elizabethan politics as he tries to save both his family and his own legacy.
Book Synopsis Cecile and The Spider Queen by : Marilyn F Churchill
Download or read book Cecile and The Spider Queen written by Marilyn F Churchill and published by . This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cecile awakens in a beautiful garden with no memory of her past. She has fallen under the beautiful Spider Queen's spell, and is unaware that the queen's henchmen are now looking for her! Cecile soon discovers that she is, indeed, the princess of a kingdom that is in desperate need of her help. She takes heroic action! Confronting the Spider Queen, and all her deceptions, she learns what it really takes to be the princess of Belamor.
Book Synopsis A Murder By Any Name by : Suzanne Wolfe
Download or read book A Murder By Any Name written by Suzanne Wolfe and published by Crooked Lane Books. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “vivid” historical mystery series debut captures “the light and dark of Elizabethan England . . . its squalor and splendor, filth and riches, intrigues and delights” (New York Journal of Books). When a brutal murder threatens the sanctity of Queen Elizabeth’s court, it’s up to a hot-tempered spy to save the day. The court of Elizabeth I is no stranger to plotting and intrigue, but the royal retinue is thrown into chaos when the Queen’s youngest and sweetest lady-in-waiting is murdered, her body left on the high altar of the Chapel Royal in Whitehall Palace. Solving the murder will require the cunning and savvy possessed by only one man. Enter Nicholas Holt, younger brother of the Earl of Blackwell—spy, rake, and owner of the infamous Black Sheep tavern in the seedy district of Bankside. Nick quickly learns that working for the Queen is a mixed blessing. Elizabeth—salty-tongued, vain, and fiercely intelligent—can, with a glance, either reward Nick with a purse of gold or have his head forcibly removed. When a second lady-in-waiting is slain at Whitehall, the court once again reels with shock and dismay. On the trail of a diabolical killer, Nick and his faithful sidekick—an enormous Irish Wolfhound named Hector—are treading on treacherous ground, and only the killer’s head on a platter can keep them in the Queen’s good graces.
Book Synopsis A Woman's Vengeance. A Novel. By the Author Of"Cecil's Tryst,"etc. J. Payn by :
Download or read book A Woman's Vengeance. A Novel. By the Author Of"Cecil's Tryst,"etc. J. Payn written by and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Course of All Treasons by : Suzanne M. Wolfe
Download or read book The Course of All Treasons written by Suzanne M. Wolfe and published by Crooked Lane Books. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Elizabethan court is beset by traitors at home and abroad as spies, rogues, and would-be usurpers of the throne vie for power. England, 1586. Tensions rise as threats to the realm abound. Traitors are plotting for Mary Queen of Scots to depose Elizabeth I and take the throne. Rumors of a Spanish invasion by sea mount daily. And the body of one of Sir Francis Walsingham's agents is found floating in the Thames as other agents face enemies armed with crossbows and vials of poison. Nicholas Holt, a spy in Walsingham's employ, narrowly averts the same fate while setting off in pursuit of the killer--or killers. And when he surprises a suspect in the company of a Spanish agent, he believes he's close not only to solving the case but preventing an act of high treason. But soon, the attacks begin to threaten Nick's circle of friends. As those he loves face mortal peril, Nick must unravel the tangled plot, all the while steering a careful path through the fierce rivalry between Walsingham's agents and those of the Queen's favorite, the upstart Earl of Essex. Now it's a race to the breathless conclusion as Nick desperately searches for the answers that can save the day--and a vestige of loyalty that can save his own life.
Book Synopsis The Queen's Men by : Oliver Clements
Download or read book The Queen's Men written by Oliver Clements and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-05-07 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Agents of the Crown returns with this riveting novel following the original MI6 agent as he is assigned a dangerous mission to recreate a weapon from antiquity. As she travels through Waltham Forest, Queen Elizabeth I is ambushed by masked gunmen who leave her carriage riddled with holes before disappearing into the night. The Queen's Private Secretary, Sir Francis Walsingham, is tasked with finding the perpetrators, about whom they know precious little. But someone alerted the gunman to the route of the Queen's carriage, and Walsingham knows that the assassins will not stop until she's dead. Only one man can top the plot, loyal friend John Dee.
Book Synopsis The Spider's Web by : Joseph Jefferson
Download or read book The Spider's Web written by Joseph Jefferson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2006-02-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Cecil B. DeMille and American Culture by : Sumiko Higashi
Download or read book Cecil B. DeMille and American Culture written by Sumiko Higashi and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1994-12-02 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Cecil B. de Mille - his life and works.
Book Synopsis Reliable Roses by : Christine Utterback
Download or read book Reliable Roses written by Christine Utterback and published by Three Rivers Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Botanical Garden has been a leader in botanical research for more than a century. Beautifully designed and illustrated, the first two books in a continuing series undertaken in conjunction with this world-renowned institution will appeal to serious gardeners of every level of experience. Reliable Roses teaches the history of the rose, how to match roses to specific local conditions, the fine points of pruning, and much more. 150 full-color photos. Size C. 192 pp. National publicity. Targeted ads.
Download or read book Queen of Scots written by John Guy and published by HMH. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 633 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Whitbread Award–winning biography and basis for the film Mary Queen of Scots starring Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie “reads like Shakespearean drama” (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution). “A triumph . . . A masterpiece full of fire and tragedy.” —Amanda Foreman, author of Georgiana In the first full-scale biography of Mary Stuart in more than thirty years, John Guy creates an intimate and absorbing portrait of one of history’s greatest women, depicting her world and her place in the sweep of history with stunning immediacy. Bringing together all surviving documents and uncovering a trove of new sources for the first time, Guy dispels the popular image of Mary Queen of Scots as a romantic leading lady—achieving her ends through feminine wiles—and establishes her as the intellectual and political equal of Elizabeth I. Through Guy’s pioneering research and superbly readable prose, we come to see Mary as a skillful diplomat, maneuvering ingeniously among a dizzying array of factions that sought to control or dethrone her. Queen of Scots is an enthralling, myth-shattering look at a complex woman and ruler and her time. “The definitive biography . . . Gripping . . . A pure pleasure to read.” —The Washington Post Book World “Reads like Shakespearean drama, with all the delicious plotting and fresh writing to go with it.” —The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Book Synopsis Disgrace And Favour by : Jeremy Potter
Download or read book Disgrace And Favour written by Jeremy Potter and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1975, Disgrace and Favour is a novel of life on the Border in the dying years of Elizabeth I's reign and of intrigue and immorality at the court of King James. It is the story of the Queen's cousin, Sir Robert Carey, who was disgraced for marrying without her consent, of his struggle to restore his fortunes under her successor, and his realisation that favour among the hazards of a decadent court was even less appealing than a hard but untrammelled life in exile on the Border. It is the story, too, of the hanging of Geordie Bourne; of the life and death of Prince Henry, most gifted of the Stuarts; of Robert Carr, the royal favourite who became the only first minister of a British monarch to be convicted of murder; of Frances Howard, the beauty of the age and twice a countess, on the state of whose maidenhead depended the government of the country; of the mysterious poisoning of Sir Thomas Overbury in the Tower of London, and the meteoric career of George Villiers. Many of the other rich and bizarre characters of the age make an appearance in these pages. They are headed by the awesome Queen who terrorised her courtiers and the far from majestic king who united Scotland and England and proclaimed himself God's Vice-regent on earth but displayed a strange variety of human weaknesses.
Book Synopsis The Queen's Bastard by : Robin Maxwell
Download or read book The Queen's Bastard written by Robin Maxwell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2000-06-15 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exquisite sequel to "The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn", "Maxwell's second novel breathes extraordinary life into the scandals, political intrigue, and gut-wrenching battles that typified Queen Elizabeth's reign" ("Publishers Weekly").
Book Synopsis Frank Hilton Or "The Queen's Own". [A Novel.] by : James Grant
Download or read book Frank Hilton Or "The Queen's Own". [A Novel.] written by James Grant and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Queen's Winter written by K.C. Lannon and published by K.C. Lannon. This book was released on 2022-08-31 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A broken curse. A forbidden magic. A final battle. When the Winter Queen spirits away her champion to her court, Iain Callaghan is at the mercy of the bloodthirsty Unseelies and their ruthless king. As he tries to save the queen and sabotage the Court, can he trust an old enemy if it means his survival? Meanwhile, Deirdre battles the Winter King’s forces as well as her own prejudices against her Unseelie heritage, while her adoptive sister Alvey tries to bridge the gap between the human army and Seelie Court by cooperating with Vera, a defector of the Winter Court. Working alongside them are Alan and James, who are also hatching a risky rescue mission to both help Iain and turn the tide of the war. As old memories emerge, Raisa must choose whether to try and trust again, connecting with both her past and Sir Cai—or to make a stand with the Winter Court and its legions of monsters and faeries. In this thrilling conclusion to the Winter’s Blight series, Deirdre and her allies must fight not only to save the country but also their futures.
Book Synopsis Apocalyptic Visions in 21st Century Films by : Elizabeth A. Ford
Download or read book Apocalyptic Visions in 21st Century Films written by Elizabeth A. Ford and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-07-02 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The apocalypse on the big screen has expanded beyond the familiar end-of-the-world movies. Romantic comedies, teen adventures and even children's films frequently feature apocalyptic imagery--disintegrating cities, extreme weather events, extinctions, rogue military forces, epidemics, zombie armies and worlds colliding. Using sophisticated CGI effects, filmmakers are depicting the end of the world ever more stunningly. The authors explore the phenomenon of the cinematic apocalypse and its origins in both our anxieties and our real-world events, and they identify some flashes of hope in the desolate landscape.
Book Synopsis When Women Ruled the World: Making the Renaissance in Europe by : Maureen Quilligan
Download or read book When Women Ruled the World: Making the Renaissance in Europe written by Maureen Quilligan and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this game-changing revisionist history, a leading scholar of the Renaissance shows how four powerful women redefined the culture of European monarchy in the glorious sixteenth century. The sixteenth century in Europe was a time of chronic destabilization in which institutions of traditional authority were challenged and religious wars seemed unending. Yet it also witnessed the remarkable flowering of a pacifist culture, cultivated by a cohort of extraordinary women rulers—most notably, Mary Tudor; Elizabeth I; Mary, Queen of Scots; and Catherine de’ Medici—whose lives were intertwined not only by blood and marriage, but by a shared recognition that their premier places in the world of just a few dozen European monarchs required them to bond together, as women, against the forces seeking to destroy them, if not the foundations of monarchy itself. Recasting the complex relationships among these four queens, Maureen Quilligan, a leading scholar of the Renaissance, rewrites centuries of historical analysis that sought to depict their governments as riven by personal jealousies and petty revenges. Instead, When Women Ruled the World shows how these regents carefully engendered a culture of mutual respect, focusing on the gift-giving by which they aimed to ensure ties of friendship and alliance. As Quilligan demonstrates, gifts were no mere signals of affection, but inalienable possessions, often handed down through generations, that served as agents in the creation of a steep social hierarchy that allowed women to assume political authority beyond the confines of their gender. “With brilliant panache” (Amanda Foreman), Quilligan reveals how eleven-year-old Elizabeth I’s gift of a handmade book to her stepmother, Katherine Parr, helped facilitate peace within the tumultuous Tudor dynasty, and how Catherine de’ Medici’s gift of the Valois tapestries to her granddaughter, the soon-to-be Grand Duchess of Tuscany, both solidified and enhanced the Medici family’s prestige. Quilligan even uncovers a book of poetry given to Elizabeth I by Catherine de’ Medici as a warning against the concerted attack launched by her closest counselor, William Cecil, on the divine right of kings—an attack that ultimately resulted in the execution of her sister, Mary, Queen of Scots. Beyond gifts, When Women Ruled the World delves into the connections the regents created among themselves, connections that historians have long considered beneath notice. “Like fellow soldiers in a sororal troop,” Quilligan writes, these women protected and aided each other. Aware of the leveling patriarchal power of the Reformation, they consolidated forces, governing as “sisters” within a royal family that exercised power by virtue of inherited right—the very right that Protestantism rejected as a basis for rule. Vibrantly chronicling the artistic creativity and political ingenuity that flourished in the pockets of peace created by these four queens, Quilligan’s lavishly illustrated work offers a new perspective on the glorious sixteenth century and, crucially, the women who helped create it.
