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Elizabeth I
Hardcover, 671 pages, Penguin Group USA, List Price: $30 | purchase
Book Summary
Growing up at the side of her cousin, Elizabeth I, Lettice Knollys struggles to regain power and position for her family while competing against the queen for the love of Robert Dudley, a rivalry that is set against a backdrop of the flourishing Elizabethan age. By the best-selling author of Mary Queen of Scotland & the Isles. 150,000 first printing.
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This book is about:
- Elizabeth, 1558-1603,
- Leicester, Robert Dudley,
- Countess of,
- Leicester, Lettice Dudley,
- Queen of England,
- I,
- Elizabeth,
- Earl of,
- Queens,
- Historical fiction,
- Great Britain,
- History,
- Fiction
NPR stories about Elizabeth I
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Elizabeth Tudor was one of history's most intriguing, intelligent and enigmatic women, and Margaret George does her justice in her splendid novel, Elizabeth I, capturing the mercurial, strong-willed queen in all her neurotic brilliance. This is Elizabeth in her autumn. We are with her when she faces the greatest crisis of her reign, the threat posed by the Spanish Armada. We grieve with her over the love of her life, Robert Dudley, and feel the heat of her jealousy of her cousin,... more
—Sharon Penman
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