Elizabeth and Essex
by LYTTON STRACHEY
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good +/No Jacket
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Oak Ridge, North Carolina, United States
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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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- ARCCBOOKS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000743
- Title
- Elizabeth and Essex
- Author
- LYTTON STRACHEY
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good +
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Regular Edition Stated
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harcourt; Brace And Co.
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1928
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- Biography; Famous Person /Celebrity;
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