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Virgin Queen
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16th sixteenth century
A01=Christopher Hibbert
anne boleyn
Author_Christopher Hibbert
Category=DNBH
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christopher marlowe
classic biography
Elizabethan era
england
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fifteen hundreds
Francis Drake
great Britain
henry viii
historical play
history
monarchy
politics
royalty
Spanish Armada
Tudor dynasty
Walter Raleigh
William Shakespeare
Product details
- ISBN 9781848855557
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 30 Sep 2010
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The years of Elizabeth's childhood were troubled - fraught with danger and beset with the political and religious plots of those around her. At the age of two her mother, Anne Boleyn, was beheaded by her father, Henry VIII; Elizabeth was declared illegitimate and banished from the royal court. At 21, she was imprisoned in the Tower of London by her sister, Mary. And at 25 she was crowned Queen of England and Ireland, ruling as the last monarch of the Tudor dynasty until her death in 1603. The reign of Elizabeth was characterized by the virgin queen cult that grew up around her fierce independence, by her epic defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588, by England's seafaring prowess personified in the figures of Francis Drake and Walter Raleigh and by the great flowering of artistic and literary creativity that was catalyzed in the plays of Shakespeare and Marlowe. In this classic biography, Christopher Hibbert paints a compelling and evocative portrait of one of history's most fascinating women, illuminated against a backdrop of the tumultuous, glorious events of the Elizabethan era - England's Golden Age.
Christopher Hibbert (1924-2008) was a prolific and popular historian. He began his writing career in 1959 and was awarded the Heinemann Award for Literature in 1962 and the McColvin Medal in 1989. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Geographical Society, Christopher Hibbert wrote acclaimed biographies of Benito Mussolini, Charles I, Napoleon and Disraeli and was also the author of The Roots of Evil, Waterloo, The Search for King Arthur, The House of Medici, The Great Mutiny, The Days of the French Revolution and Rome, among many others.
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