ELIZABETH AND ESSEX - A Tragic History
by LYTTON STRACHEY
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- Hardcover
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- Condition
- FINE-MINUS
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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's Inventory #
- SMH006020
- Title
- ELIZABETH AND ESSEX - A Tragic History
- Author
- LYTTON STRACHEY
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - FINE-MINUS
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st thus
- Publisher
- Chatto and Windus.
- Date Published
- 1932
- Keywords
- SMH, BLOOMSBURY GROUP,
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