Lady Elizabeth
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The Lady Elizabeth
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Author : Alison Weir
language : en
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Release Date : 2008-08-05
The Lady Elizabeth written by Alison Weir and has been published by Ballantine Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-08-05 with Fiction categories.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A masterful novel exploring the early life of young Elizabeth Tudor, who would become England’s most intriguing and powerful queen, from acclaimed historian Alison Weir “Engrossing . . . Weir marries conjecture with what is known about the life of Elizabeth I from childhood to coronation, and it makes for ripping good reading.”—Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Even at age two, Elizabeth is keenly aware that people in the court of her father, King Henry VIII, have stopped referring to her as “Lady Princess” and now call her “the Lady Elizabeth.” Before she is three, she learns of the tragic fate that has befallen her mother, the enigmatic and seductive Anne Boleyn, and that she herself has been declared illegitimate, an injustice that will haunt her. What comes next is a succession of stepmothers, bringing with them glimpses of love, fleeting security, tempestuous conflict, and tragedy. The death of her father puts the teenage Elizabeth in greater peril, leaving her at the mercy of ambitious and unscrupulous men. Like her mother two decades earlier she is imprisoned in the Tower of London—and fears she will also meet her mother’s grisly end. Power-driven politics, private scandal and public gossip, a disputed succession, and the grievous example of her sister, “Bloody” Queen Mary, all cement Elizabeth’s resolve in matters of statecraft and love, and set the stage for her transformation into the iconic Virgin Queen. Alison Weir uses her deft talents as historian and novelist to exquisitely and suspensefully play out the conflicts between family, politics, religion, and conscience that came to define an age. Sweeping in scope, The Lady Elizabeth is a fascinating portrayal of a woman far ahead of her time—an orphaned girl haunted by the shadow of the axe, an independent spirit who must use her cunning and wits for her very survival, and a future queen whose dangerous and dramatic path to the throne shapes her future greatness. BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Alison Weir’s Mary Boleyn.
The Lady Elizabeth
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Author : Alison Weir
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
The Lady Elizabeth written by Alison Weir and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Great Britain categories.
Lady Elizabeth
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Author : Alison Weir
language : it
Publisher: Superbeat
Release Date : 2017
Lady Elizabeth written by Alison Weir and has been published by Superbeat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Fiction categories.
Elizabeth The Queen And The Lady Elizabeth
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Author : Alison Weir
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-03-25
Elizabeth The Queen And The Lady Elizabeth written by Alison Weir and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-25 with History categories.
A special bundle of one fiction and one non-fiction title from betselling historian Alison Weir, both centred around Elizabeth I: The Lady Elizabeth: England, 1536. Home to the greatest, most glittering court in English history. But beneath the dazzling façade lies treachery... Elizabeth Tudor is daughter to Henry VIII, the most powerful king England has ever known. She is destined to ascend the throne, and deferred to as the King`s heiress, but that all changes when her mother Anne Boleyn - Henry`s great passion and folly - is executed for treason. A pawn in the savage game of Tudor power politics, she is disinherited, declared a bastard, and left with only her quick wits to rely on for her very existence. But Elizabeth is determined to survive, to foil those who want to destroy her, or who are determined to use her as a puppet for their own lethal ambition, and to reclaim her birthright... Elizabeth, the Queen: This book begins as the young Elizabeth ascends the throne in the wake of her sister Mary's disastrous reign. Elizabeth is portrayed as both a woman and a queen, an extraordinary phenomenon in a patriarchal age. Alison Weir writes of Elizabeth's intriguing, long-standing affair with Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, of her dealings - sometimes comical, sometimes poignant - with her many suitors, of her rivalry with Mary, Queen of Scots, and of her bizarre relationship with the Earl of Essex, thirty years her junior. Rich in detail, vivid and colourful, this book comes as close as we shall ever get to knowing what Elizabeth I was like as a person.
Dearest Bess
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Author : Dorothy Margaret Stuart
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1955
Dearest Bess written by Dorothy Margaret Stuart and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1955 with Great Britain categories.
The Determined Lady Elizabeth
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Author : Joan Dean
language : en
Publisher: Gatekeeper Press
Release Date : 2022-03-09
The Determined Lady Elizabeth written by Joan Dean and has been published by Gatekeeper Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-09 with History categories.
Life does not always go according to one's plan. In fact, sometimes it interferes with and shatters our assumptions of what we think our life ought to be. Each of these characters had their plans changed in large and small ways; but if one can be flexible, have supportive family and friends, and be willing to see opportunities, then life can be better than ever imagined. Interwoven in the story of Lady Elizabeth, her family, and her love, Robert, are historical figures who appear in the correct time and place , adding relevant information and dimension to the sequence of events. Lady Elizabeth does the rest. Determined to help others, interested in new ideas, and then (finally) open to the unexpected, astonishing, and amazing things that come from being in love, she is ready to begin life anew with the best plan of all...a loving helpmate by her side Not your everyday romance! Book Review: Writer's Digest: “As the foreword said, this is a story that deserved to be told. Much more than a biography of a courageous soldier in WW II, while focusing on the author's uncle Frank Shaw, this book vividly captures the horrors of war, the emotions surrounding the battles that young men in Frank Shaw's infantry regiment were forced into, their fears, day by day per the dangers they encountered, and the physical and emotional hardships and scars the war, the frontline and POW experiences left as a result. Having written the book after the subject's death, Bill Shaw must have done an incredible amount of research -- reading letters, e-mailing old friends, interviewing family, friends and colleagues, piecing in facts from numerous books, newspapers and magazines, etc. -- to produce such a comprehensive, very readable story. This was obviously a labor of love and gratitude -- the author's dedication to a real hero. The writing is very even and compelling, with interesting, relevant details, helpful dialogue and scenes of real action and danger. I was very moved by this book.” -- Writer's Digest
The Lady S Monitor Selected From The Writings Of Lady Jane Gray Queen Catherine Parr Lady Elizabeth Brooke Elizabeth Smith Sir Thomas More Sir John Cheeke And William Penn With Short Biographs Of The Writers
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1828
The Lady S Monitor Selected From The Writings Of Lady Jane Gray Queen Catherine Parr Lady Elizabeth Brooke Elizabeth Smith Sir Thomas More Sir John Cheeke And William Penn With Short Biographs Of The Writers written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1828 with categories.
The Girlhood Of Queen Elizabeth
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Author : Frank Arthur Mumby
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1909
The Girlhood Of Queen Elizabeth written by Frank Arthur Mumby and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1909 with categories.
The Journal Of Elizabeth Lady Holland 1791 1811 Complete
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Author : Lady Elizabeth Vassall Fox Holland
language : en
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Release Date : 2020-09-28
The Journal Of Elizabeth Lady Holland 1791 1811 Complete written by Lady Elizabeth Vassall Fox Holland and has been published by Library of Alexandria this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-28 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Fame is notoriously fickle. Her methods are many and varied, and all do not receive a like treatment at her hands. The names of those who have done the most, by laborious and scientific pursuits, alike injurious to their health and happiness, to smooth the thorny paths of their fellow-creatures, are perhaps allowed to lapse into utter oblivion. While others, whose claim to immortality rests on a more slender base, are celebrated among their posterity. Lady Holland’s claim to renown rests upon the later years of her life. She is known to the readers of memoirs and historical biographies of her time as the domineering leader of the Whig circle; as a lady whose social talents and literary accomplishments drew to her house the wits, the politicians, and the cognoscenti of the day. She is known as the hostess who dared to give orders to such guests as Macaulay and Sydney Smith, and, what is more, expected and exacted implicit obedience. As yet, however, little has been written of her earlier years, and on these her Journal will throw much light. It is a record of the years of her unhappy marriage to Sir Godfrey Webster; and after her marriage with Lord Holland the narrative is continued with more or less regularity until 1814. The chief point which at once strikes home in reading the account of her younger days is an entire absence of any system of education, to use the words in their modern application. Everything she learnt was due to her own exertions. She did not receive the benefit of any course of early teaching to prepare her to meet on equal terms the brightest stars of a period which will compare favourably with any other in the annals of this country for genius and understanding. ‘My principles were of my own finding, both religious and moral, for I never was instructed in abstract or practical religion, and as soon as I could think at all chance directed my studies.... Happily for me, I devoured books, and a desire for information became my ruling passion.’ Her own words thus describe how she gained the general knowledge which was subsequently of such use to her. Lectures on geology, courses of chemistry with the savants whom she met on her travels, and hours of careful reading snatched whenever practicable, seem to have been the solace and the recreation of those early years of her married life. By her own efforts she thus became fitted, with the aid of undoubted beauty and a natural liveliness of disposition, to take her place in Whig society, into which her marriage with Lord Holland had thrown her. Without the same opportunities, her salon in later days succeeded and far surpassed in interest that presided over by the beautiful Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. Thus said Charles Greville: ‘Tho’ everybody who goes there finds something to abuse or to ridicule in the mistress of the house, or its ways, all continue to go. All like it more or less; and whenever, by the death of either, it shall come to an end, a vacuum will be made in society which nothing can supply. It is the house of all Europe; the world will suffer by the loss; and it may be said with truth that it will “eclipse the gaiety of nations.”’ But her sway over her associates was the rule of fear, not of love; and with age the imperiousness of her demeanour to her intimates grew more marked. Each one of her visitors was liable to become a target for the venom of her wit or the sharpness of her tongue.
In The Days Of Queen Elizabeth
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Author : Eva March Tappan
language : en
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Release Date : 2015-10-11
In The Days Of Queen Elizabeth written by Eva March Tappan and has been published by Library of Alexandria this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-11 with categories.
“Now it is so, my Lady Elizabeth is put from that degree she was afore, and what degree she is at now, I know not but by hearsay. Therefore I know not how to order her myself, nor none of hers that I have the rule of, that is, her women and grooms, beseeching you to be good Lord to my good Lady and to all hers, and that she may have some raiment.” The letter goes on to say that she has neither gown, nor slip, nor petticoat, nor kerchiefs, nor neckerchiefs, nor nightcaps, “nor no manner of linen,” and ends, “All these her Grace must have. I have driven off as long as I can, that by my troth I can drive it off no longer. Beseeching ye, mine own good Lord, that ye will see that her Grace may have that which is needful for her, as my trust is that ye will do.” The little princess had a good friend in Lady Margaret Bryan, the “lady mistress” whom Queen Anne had put over her when, as the custom was, the royal baby was taken from her mother to dwell in another house with her own retinue of attendants and ladies in waiting. In this same letter the kind lady mistress ventured to praise the neglected child. She wrote of her:— “She is as toward a child and as gentle of condition as ever I knew any in my life. I trust the king’s Grace shall have great comfort in her Grace.” Lady Margaret told the chancellor that the little one was having “great pain with her great teeth.” Probably the last thing that King Henry thought of was showing his daughter to the public or making her prominent in any way, but the lady mistress sturdily suggested that if he should wish it, the Lady Elizabeth would be so taught that she would be an honor to the king, but she must not be kept too long before the public, she must have her freedom again in a day or two.