Elizabeth and Essex: A Tragic History
by Lytton Strachey
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
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Novato, California, United States
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About This Item
Harcourt, Brace, 1928. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. Previous owner bookplate on front free page: Dorothy Hare. No markings in book. Binding is fine. Lightly read. Scuffed, price clipped DJ with shelf wear.
Synopsis
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
- Orca Knowledge Systems Inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- mon0000028039
- Title
- Elizabeth and Essex: A Tragic History
- Author
- Lytton Strachey
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace
- Date Published
- 1928
- Size
- in x in x in
- Weight
- 1.80 lbs
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