Elizabeth I: Her Life in Letters - Hardcover
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Queen Elizabeth (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. This volume has been published to commemorate the 400th anniversary of her death in 1603. It illustrates in colour and (where possible) actual size, a selection of 60 manuscripts - either by Elizabeth or to her - from the British Library, Public Record Office, Hatfield House and other great libraries. Each is accompanied by a commentary, explaining the document and placing it in its historical context. 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 Mary. Also included in the book are highly dramatic letters exchanged with Mary Queen of Scots; declarations of love from the Earl of Essex, followed a few pages on by her signed warrant for his execution; and a letter from Tsar Ivan the Terrible, who rounds on her in a blind fury after she refuses to marry him.
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"An inimitable collection of documents giving insight into one of the most public and yet most enigmatic of English monarchs, Elizabeth I peers behind the carefully fashioned veil with which Queen Elizabeth dissembled and cloaked her persona."—Thomas G. Barnes, author of Somerset 1625-1640
"A superb opportunity to examine the complex and multi-faceted life of Queen Elizabeth. Pryor has produced an excellent collection that is both informative and great fun to read."—Muriel C. McClendon, author of The Quiet Reformation
About the Author
Felix Pryor is a writer, art historian, and manuscripts expert. He has written on Shakespeare and is editor of The Faber Book of Letters (1988).
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- PublisherBritish Library
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0712347887
- ISBN 13 9780712347884
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages144
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