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Author : Lytton Strachey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Elizabeth and Essex written by Lytton Strachey and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lytton Strachey
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 150408117X
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Elizabeth and Essex written by Lytton Strachey and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2024-01-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The romance of Queen Elizabeth I and Robert Devereux captures “the real drama of ambition, passion, and personality in the pageant of veracious history” (The Philadelphia Inquirer). The author who helped to shape the modern biography turned his glorious prose and searing wit to one of the most famous romances in British history, that of Queen Elizabeth I and Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex. As the San Francisco Chronicle raved, “Elizabeth is an old subject, but here is a fresh and brilliant portrait of her, a splendidly dramatic story, an historical excursion of uncommon interest.” In these pages, Lytton Strachey follows the twists and turns of the uncommon affair. The stepson of the Earl of Leicester, the Queen’s favorite, Robert was not yet twenty when he captured the fifty-three-year-old monarch’s interest. Their tumultuous relationship survived international intrigue, political machinations, and even the young Earl’s marriage. But it was only a matter of time before his ambition would clash with the capricious Queen, bringing about his untimely end. This biography “is penetrating and true. It is not only Mr. Strachey’s best book; it is a great book” (New-York Evening Post). “A beautiful and memorable book.” —The Atlantic Monthly “If there is such a thing as imperishable prose being written in our time, Mr. Strachey has done it here.” —The New York Times Book Review “Mr. Strachey unfolds this story in brilliant chapter after brilliant chapter, unraveling the tangled threads of amorous intrigue and political machination . . . Above all, he writes as beautifully as he thinks.” —Outlook “It is a glowing history in words.” —Boston Evening Transcript
Author : Elizabeth Essex
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250003792
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Almost a Scandal written by Elizabeth Essex and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Posing as a young man, Sally Kent, taking her brother's place in the British Royal Navy, climbs aboard a ship where Lieutenant David Colyear sees through her charade but agrees to keep her on as they embark on a high-seas adventure.
Author : Steven Veerapen
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781099128189
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (281 download)
Download or read book Elizabeth and Essex written by Steven Veerapen and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-05-18 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A sensitive and lively account of one of the most politically significant relationships of the Elizabethan age". Lisa Hopkins, author of Essex: The Life and Times of an Elizabethan Courtier. Elizabeth I is England's most iconic queen. Born to Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn and declared illegitimate at two, she was also one of its unlikeliest monarchs. Though she never married, her relationships have been the stuff of Hollywood movies, biographical studies, and historical fiction. Famously a Virgin Queen, Elizabeth faced rumour, innuendo, and scandal both during her life and in the centuries since. Her relationship with her last courtly lover, however, remains mystifying. The glamorous Earl of Essex, thirty years her junior, became her inseparable companion, wrote loving letters and poetry to her, and dominated the last decade of her reign. But did he love her, or was he simply taking advantage of a vain, ageing woman? As the fabric of her reign unravelled, Elizabeth fought to keep her court under control. Using a curious system of power, patronage, and politics that had served her for decades, she struggled to maintain her hard-won sovereignty against the incursions of idealistic and factious young men. But the story of Elizabeth and Essex is not one of cynicism, and nor is it one of vanity or ambition. It is the tale of a younger man's possessive love for a woman who had to refashion herself as a new queen in an old kingdom. Theirs was a tragic game of passion, jealousy, resentment, and division. He shone in the light of the Elizabethan age, and she was its fading sun. Drawing on letters, legal records, poetry, and scholarly debates, Steven Veerapen reveals a saga of courtly love, political machination, and simmering power struggles. In doing so, he recovers Elizabeth and Essex from the mists of rumour and speculation and reveals them as they were. Essex was neither fool nor cynical manipulator, but the era's last folk hero. She was not a white-painted harridan, but an astute and beguiling woman whom time was leaving behind. The story of Elizabeth I's last years requires reassessment. By re-framing her as a woman forced into the role of history's Virgin Queen and Essex as the loving and beloved star which threatened her eclipse, Elizabeth and Essex provides a new perspective on England's most famous queen. Steven Veerapen holds a Ph.D. in Elizabethan literature and is the author of Blood Feud: The Story of Mary Queen of Scots and the Earl of Moray, A Dangerous Trade: An Elizabethan Spy Thriller and The Abbey Close Mystery Series. Praise for Steven Veerapen: "A slow-burn character driven spy story that grips like a thumbscrew tightened by twist after twist towards the end - Le Carre transported to the 1560's. Brilliant work, based in impressively wide research and the kind of competition that I and a good number of others could well do without!" Peter Tonkin, author of A Stage For Murder "Much-needed analysis of a sinister sibling rivalry." Marie Macpherson, author of The First Blast of the Trumpet
Author : Claire Tomalin
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307427595
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Samuel Pepys written by Claire Tomalin and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a decade, beginning in 1660, an ambitious young London civil servant kept an astonishingly candid account of his life during one of the most defining periods in British history. In Samuel Pepys, Claire Tomalin offers us a fully realized and richly nuanced portrait of this man, whose inadvertent masterpiece would establish him as the greatest diarist in the English language. Against the backdrop of plague, civil war, and regicide, with John Milton composing diplomatic correspondence for Oliver Cromwell, Christopher Wren drawing up plans to rebuild London, and Isaac Newton advancing the empirical study of the world around us, Tomalin weaves a breathtaking account of a figure who has passed on to us much of what we know about seventeenth-century London. We witness Pepys’s early life and education, see him advising King Charles II before running to watch the great fire consume London, learn about the great events of the day as well as the most intimate personal details that Pepys encrypted in the Diary, follow him through his later years as a powerful naval administrator, and come to appreciate how Pepys’s singular literary enterprise would in many ways prefigure our modern selves. With exquisite insight and compassion, Samuel Pepys captures the uniquely fascinating figure whose legacy lives on more than three hundred years after his death.
Author : Susan Doran
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199574952
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)
Download or read book Elizabeth I and Her Circle written by Susan Doran and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inside story of Elizabeth I's inner circle and the crucial human relationships which lay at the heart of her personal and political life. It is a vivid and often dramatic account, offering a deeper insight into Elizabeth's emotional and political conduct, and challenging many popular myths about her.
Author : Alexandra Gajda
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199699682
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)
Download or read book The Earl of Essex and Late Elizabethan Political Culture written by Alexandra Gajda and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyses the attitudes of Essex and his followers towards war, religion, and domestic politics; examines Essex's impact on Elizabethan political culture
Author : Elizabeth Essex
Publisher : St. Martin's Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 1466843047
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book A Scandal to Remember written by Elizabeth Essex and published by St. Martin's Paperbacks. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rules of courtship are swept out to sea when a shipwreck offers a Reckless Bride a true taste of paradise... CAN A WHIRLWIND ROMANCE In Elizabeth Essex's A Scandal to Remember, for too long, Miss Jane Burke's father has taken advantage of her painstaking research. Heading to the South Seas to make her own name as a scientist despite the crew's insistence that a woman aboard is bad luck, she isn't prepared to be championed by a handsome ship's officer who rouses longings inside her as wild as any storm... LEAD TO A PROPER PROPOSAL? For Lieutenant Charles Dance, a post on His Majesty's survey ship Tenacious is just one more dutiful rung on the ladder of his career. Even a headstrong bluestocking on board is less troubling than the ship's drunken captain-and the ferocious gales that drive the ship off course. Stranded on a remote island, passion blazes between them as hot as the sun, but it's Jane's love that Charles wants forever... "A sophisticated blend of vivid historical detail, exquisite characterization, and delicious sexual tension."-USA Today bestselling author Julianne MacLean
Author : Maxwell Anderson
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573608575
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (85 download)
Download or read book Elizabeth the Queen written by Maxwell Anderson and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1957 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this drama we see Elizabeth and Essex, a royal favorite and popular general, in love. He is barely thirty and Elizabeth is an aging woman; their love is an extraordinary paradox. Elizabeth delights in Essex the courtier and lover, but is jealous of Essex the military leader and hero. Her constant effort is to keep him quietly at Court under her control. Essex, the last of a proud family, loves the queen but longs for action, glory, and power. He longs to over throw Elizabeth's crafty, cautious statesmanship with his own heroic endeavors. Cecil and Raleigh plot to send Essex to Ireland, juggle him out of favor, and insultingly summon him home. He arrives with an army and the situation is resolved with extraordinary poignancy and power."--Publisher's description
Author : Sarah-Beth Watkins
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789045967
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Elizabeth I's Last Favourite written by Sarah-Beth Watkins and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-26 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite widespread interest in Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, little has been written about him in decades past. In Elizabeth I's Last Favourite, Sarah-Beth Watkins brings the story of his life, and death, back into the public eye. In the later years of Elizabeth I's reign, Robert Devereux became the ageing queen's last favourite. The young upstart courtier was the stepson of her most famous love, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. Although he tried, throughout his life, to live up to his stepfather's memory, Essex would never be the man he was. His love for the queen ran in tandem with undercurrents of selfishness and greed. Yet, Elizabeth showered him with affection, gifts and the tolerance only a mother could have for an errant son. In return, for a time, Essex flattered her and pandered to her every whim. But, one disastrous commission after another befell the earl, from his military campaigns, to voyages seeking treasure, to his stint as spymaster. Ultimately, his relationship with the queen would suffer and his final act of rebellion would force Elizabeth I to ensure her last favourite troubled her no more.
Author : Elizabeth Haynes
Publisher : Myriad Editions
ISBN 13 : 1912408058
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (124 download)
Download or read book The Murder of Harriet Monckton written by Elizabeth Haynes and published by Myriad Editions. This book was released on 2018-09-28 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the award-winning and bestselling author of Into the Darkest Corner comes a delicious Victorian crime novel based on a true story that shocked and fascinated the nation. On 7th November 1843, Harriet Monckton, 23 years old and a woman of respectable parentage and religious habits, is found murdered in the privy behind the chapel she regularly attended in Bromley, Kent. The community is appalled by her death, apparently as a result of swallowing a fatal dose of prussic acid, and even more so when the surgeon reports that Harriet was around six months pregnant. Drawing on the coroner's reports and witness testimonies, Elizabeth Haynes builds a compelling picture of Harriet's final hours through the eyes of those closest to her and the last people to see her alive. Her fellow teacher and companion, her would-be fiancé, her seducer, her former lover—all are suspects; each has a reason to want her dead. Brimming with lust, mistrust and guilt, The Murder of Harriet Monckton is a masterclass of suspense from one of our greatest crime writers.
Author : Margaret George
Publisher : Viking Adult
ISBN 13 : 9780670022533
Total Pages : 671 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (225 download)
Download or read book Elizabeth I written by Margaret George and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 2011 with total page 671 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of today's premier historical novelists, "New York Times" bestseller George dazzles here as she tackles her most difficult subject yet: the legendary Elizabeth Tudor, queen of enigma. But what was she really like? In this novel, her flame-haired, lookalike cousin, Lettice Knollys, thinks she knows all too well.
Author : Lytton Strachey
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1447485076
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (474 download)
Download or read book Elizabeth and Essex written by Lytton Strachey and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth I of England had one great passion in her life and that was for the Earl of Essex giving him power, wealth and favour in such a way that he made many enemies. This fascinating biography of this great romance is written in such a way as to appear as a historical novel. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Author : Lytton Strachey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Elizabeth and Essex written by Lytton Strachey and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dramatizes one of the most famous and most baffling romances in history -- between Elizabeth I, Queen of England, and Robert Devereux, the vital, handsome Earl of Essex. It began in May of 1587 when she was 53 and Essex was not yet 20 and continued until 1601.
Author : Henry Jones
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 63 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book The Earl of Essex written by Henry Jones and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Earl of Essex' is a five-act play written by Henry Jones. It is a reimagination of the life of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex. The real life figure was an English nobleman and a favorite of Queen Elizabeth I. Politically ambitious, and a committed general, he was placed under house arrest following a poor campaign in Ireland during the Nine Years' War in 1599. In 1601, he led an abortive coup d'état against the government of Elizabeth I and was executed for treason.
Author : Lytton Strachey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (143 download)
Download or read book Elizabeth and Essex written by Lytton Strachey and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elizabeth I (Queen of England)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (23 download)
Download or read book The Secret History of the most renowned Q. Elizabeth, and the E. of Essex. By a person of quality. A translation of"Le Comte d'Essex. Histoire angloise." written by Elizabeth I (Queen of England) and published by . This book was released on 1695 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
