Elizabeth I : a personal history of the virgin queen
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Elizabeth I : a personal history of the virgin queen
（Penguin books）
Penguin, 2001
- : pbk
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First published by Viking as "The virgin queen : the personal history of Elizabeth I" 1990
Published in Penguin Books 1992
Bibliography: p. 263-271
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Christopher Hibbert's Virgin Queen is devious, neurotic, capricious, and brilliant. In this biography, which includes character sketches of her relations and courtiers, he fleshes out Elizabeth's quirks and character, giving a well-rounded view of this famous monarch.
Table of Contents
- Part 1: prologue
- the king's daughter
- the queen's sister
- "oh, lord! the queen is a woman!"
- subjects and suitors
- papists and puritans
- the queen in her privy chamber
- the queen in her council chamber
- the queen at court
- the queen on progress. Part 2: daughter of discord
- traitors and rebels
- plots and counterplots
- the queen's frog
- "this most wicked and filthy woman"
- "the enterprise of England"
- the Earl of Essex
- Lords and Commons
- "a lady shut in a chamber"
- the last act.
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