Elizabeth I

Elizabeth I
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 152
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ISBN-10 : 0520241061
ISBN-13 : 9780520241060
Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Synopsis Elizabeth I by : Elizabeth I (Queen of England)

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."

The Letters of Queen Elizabeth I.

The Letters of Queen Elizabeth I.
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Total Pages : 350
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ISBN-10 : UVA:X000084086
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Rating : 4/5 (86 Downloads)

Synopsis The Letters of Queen Elizabeth I. by : Elizabeth I (Queen of England)

Counting One's Blessings

Counting One's Blessings
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Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages : 1509
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ISBN-10 : 9781466827745
ISBN-13 : 1466827742
Rating : 4/5 (45 Downloads)

Synopsis Counting One's Blessings by : William Shawcross

William Shawcross's official biography of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, published in September 2009, was a huge critical and commercial success.One of the great revelations of the book was Queen Elizabeth's insightful, witty private correspondence. Indeed, The Sunday Times described her letters as "wonderful . . . brimful of liveliness and irreverence, steeliness and sweetness." Now, in Counting One's Blessings, Shawcross has put together a selection of her letters, drawing on the vast wealth of material in the Royal Archives and at Glamis Castle. Queen Elizabeth was a prolific correspondent, from her early childhood before World War I to the very end of her long life at the beginning of the twenty-first century, and her letters offer readers a vivid insight into the real person behind the public face.

Letters of Queen Elizabeth I

Letters of Queen Elizabeth I
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ISBN-10 : 1906251827
ISBN-13 : 9781906251826
Rating : 4/5 (27 Downloads)

Synopsis Letters of Queen Elizabeth I by : GB Harrison

Elizabeth I's Italian Letters

Elizabeth I's Italian Letters
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 351
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ISBN-10 : 9781137435538
ISBN-13 : 1137435534
Rating : 4/5 (38 Downloads)

Synopsis Elizabeth I's Italian Letters by : Carlo M. Bajetta

This is the first edition ever of the Queen’s correspondence in Italian. These letters cast a new light on her talents as a linguist and provide interesting details as to her political agenda, and on the cultural milieu of her court. This book provides a fresh analysis of the surviving evidence concerning Elizabeth’s learning and use of Italian, and of the activity of the members of her ‘Foreign Office.’ All of the documents transcribed here are accompanied by a short introduction focusing on their content and context, a brief description of their transmission history, and an English translation.

letters of Queen Elizabeth

letters of Queen Elizabeth
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Total Pages : 323
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ISBN-10 : OCLC:898803970
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Rating : 4/5 (70 Downloads)

Synopsis letters of Queen Elizabeth by : queen of England Elizabeth

Queen Elizabeth I

Queen Elizabeth I
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 402
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ISBN-10 : 9780743470810
ISBN-13 : 0743470818
Rating : 4/5 (10 Downloads)

Synopsis Queen Elizabeth I by : Elizabeth I (Queen of England)

This impeccably researched collection of the public and private writings of the great British monarch includes a generous selection of her poetry, speeches, letters, prayers, and translations--made available and accessible to a popular audience for the first time ever.

Elizabeth I

Elizabeth I
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 471
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ISBN-10 : 9780226504711
ISBN-13 : 0226504719
Rating : 4/5 (11 Downloads)

Synopsis Elizabeth I by : Leah S. Marcus

This long-awaited and masterfully edited volume contains nearly all of the writings of Queen Elizabeth I: the clumsy letters of childhood, the early speeches of a fledgling queen, and the prayers and poetry of the monarch's later years. The first collection of its kind, Elizabeth I reveals brilliance on two counts: that of the Queen, a dazzling writer and a leading intellect of the English Renaissance, and that of the editors, whose copious annotations make the book not only essential to scholars but accessible to general readers as well. "This collection shines a light onto the character and experience of one of the most interesting of monarchs. . . . We are likely never to get a closer or clearer look at her. An intriguing and intense portrait of a woman who figures so importantly in the birth of our modern world."—Publishers Weekly "An admirable scholarly edition of the queen's literary output. . . . This anthology will excite scholars of Elizabethan history, but there is something here for all of us who revel in the English language."—John Cooper, Washington Times "Substantial, scholarly, but accessible. . . . An invaluable work of reference."—Patrick Collinson, London Review of Books "In a single extraordinary volume . . . Marcus and her coeditors have collected the Virgin Queen's letters, speeches, poems and prayers. . . . An impressive, heavily footnoted volume."—Library Journal "This excellent anthology of [Elizabeth's] speeches, poems, prayers and letters demonstrates her virtuosity and afford the reader a penetrating insight into her 'wiles and understandings.'"—Anne Somerset, New Statesman "Here then is the only trustworthy collection of the various genres of Elizabeth's writings. . . . A fine edition which will be indispensable to all those interested in Elizabeth I and her reign."—Susan Doran, History "In the torrent of words about her, the queen's own words have been hard to find. . . . [This] volume is a major scholarly achievement that makes Elizabeth's mind much more accessible than before. . . . A veritable feast of material in different genres."—David Norbrook, The New Republic

Queen Elizabeth and Her Times

Queen Elizabeth and Her Times
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Total Pages : 560
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ISBN-10 : BSB:BSB10282354
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Rating : 4/5 (54 Downloads)

Synopsis Queen Elizabeth and Her Times by : Thomas Wright