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Elizabeth and Leicester

The Truth about the Virgin Queen and the Man She Loved

The Truth about the Virgin Queen and the Man She Loved

By Sarah Gristwood

By Sarah Gristwood

By Sarah Gristwood

By Sarah Gristwood

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Oct 28, 2008 | ISBN 9780143114499

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Oct 28, 2008 | ISBN 9781440631375

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    About Elizabeth and Leicester

    View our feature on Sarah Gristwood’s Elizabeth & Leicester.Though the story has been told on film—and whispered in historic gossip—this is the first book in almost fifty years to solely explore the great queen’s attachment to her beloved Robert Dudley, the Earl of Leicester. Fueled by scandal and intrigue, their relationship set the explosive connection between public and private life in sixteenth-century England in bold relief. Why did they never marry? How much of what seemed a passionate obsession was actually political convenience? Elizabeth and Leicester reignites this 400- year-old love story in a book for anyone interested in Elizabethan literature.

    About Elizabeth and Leicester

    View our feature on Sarah Gristwood’s Elizabeth & Leicester.Though the story has been told on film—and whispered in historic gossip—this is the first book in almost fifty years to solely explore the great queen’s attachment to her beloved Robert Dudley, the Earl of Leicester. Fueled by scandal and intrigue, their relationship set the explosive connection between public and private life in sixteenth-century England in bold relief. Why did they never marry? How much of what seemed a passionate obsession was actually political convenience? Elizabeth and Leicester reignites this 400- year-old love story in a book for anyone interested in Elizabethan literature.

    About Sarah Gristwood

    Sarah Gristwood is an author, biographer, and journalist. A regular contributor to the New York Times, Guardian, and Independent newspapers, she is the author of Elizabeth and Leicester, Arbella: England’s Lost Queen, and Game of Queens. She lives in London and Kent.

    About Sarah Gristwood

    Sarah Gristwood is an author, biographer, and journalist. A regular contributor to the New York Times, Guardian, and Independent newspapers, she is the author of Elizabeth and Leicester, Arbella: England’s Lost Queen, and Game of Queens. She lives in London and Kent.

    Product Details

    Category: European World History | Historical Figure Biographies & Memoirs

    Paperback | $24.00
    Published by Penguin Books
    Oct 28, 2008 | 416 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8-7/16 | ISBN 9780143114499

    Category: European World History | Historical Figure Biographies & Memoirs

    Ebook | $4.99
    Published by Penguin Books
    Oct 28, 2008 | 416 Pages | ISBN 9781440631375

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    Praise

    “Quite simply one of the most enthralling history books I’ve ever read.”—Alison Weir, author of The Life of Elizabeth I

    “Gristwood . . . parses out what we do know about this pair and what information fuels many of the more titillating conclusions people have drawn over the years.”—Chicago Sun-Times

    “Vivacious and absorbing . . . Full of intriguing suggestions, stimulating analogies and shrewd connections.”—The Sunday Times (London)

    Table Of Contents

    Elizabeth & LeicesterPreface

    1. ‘Some secret constellation’: 1533-1536
    2. ‘Her eighth year’: 1536-1547
    3. ‘The occasion of his utter undoing’: 1547-1553
    4. ‘This night I think to die’: 1553-1559
    5. ‘The King that is to be’: spring 1559-summer 1560
    6. ‘So sudden a chance’: autumn 1560
    7. ‘Maiden honour and integrity’: 1560-1561
    8. ‘Not yet towards a marriage’: 1561-1565
    9. ‘Majesty and love do not sit well together’: 1565-1567
    10. ‘The daughter of debate’: 1568-1569
    11. ‘The great Lord’: the 1570s
    12. ‘Our estate requireth a match’: 1570-1572
    13. ‘I have long both loved and liked you’: 1573-1575
    14. ‘Dishonorable brutes’: 1576-1579
    15. ‘The greatest prince in Christendom’: 1578-1582
    16. ‘In times of distress’: 1582-1584
    17. ‘Her Majesty will make trial of me’: 1585-1588
    18. ‘A thing whereof we can admit no comfort’: 1588
    19. ‘To end this life for her service’

    Appendix I: The second Robert Dudley
    Appendix II: The Arthur Dudley mystery
    Afterword: some fictional treatments
    Notes on sources
    Acknowledgments
    Picture acknowledgments
    Index

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