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Countless books have been written about Elizabeth I of England, but rarely has Elizabeth the woman been presented with the vividness, authority, and perception which inform this fascinating and important work. Miss Jenkins brings the great queen, her court, and the whole exciting age to which she gave her name brilliantly to life.
There was something almost bewitched in Elizabeth, as though she came from a changeling world, cold, passionate and peculiar. She was only two when the head of her mother, Anne Boleyn, was cut off and at eight she said, "I will never marry." Prince Edward's letter to his dear sister Elizabeth, after they had been ruthlessly separated, shows that both children early knew their dangers; he wrote: "I hope to visit you soon, if nothing happens to us in the meantime."
The young Elizabeth was never entirely safe, her position rarely secure. The advisers of her Catholic sister, Mary Tudor, urged that she be put to death, saying, "The Princess Elizabeth is greatly to be feared, she has a spirit full of incantations." But Elizabeth outlived Bloody Mary and came to the throne—even though at her coronation no bishop could be found to put the crown on her head.
Queen at last, Elizabeth brought with her to the throne extraordinary gifts which were manifest from the very beginning of her reign: an unfailing instinct choosing her advisers, the great personal magnetism which made her an object of adoration to her subjects, the financial genius which contributed so largely in the later prosperity of her realm, and the apparent vacillation which was to be such a strong weapon in her diplomacy.
Elizabeth must surely have been one of the most remarkable women who have ever lived. Her fierce and consuming passion to play her role as Queen of England, her great physical energy, her fantastic vanity, her strange mixture of personal cowardice and extreme bravery, her steadfast loyalty to her trusted friends and her brutal treatment of those who offended her—everything about her is interesting. Miss Jenkins has done much to bring us closer to this woman who was as great as she was complex. Elizabeth the Great is enthralling reading from the first page to the last.
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Elizabeth The Great
2003, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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2000, Phoenix Press, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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1985, Gollancz, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-328) and index.
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