Elizabeth I - Hardcover

Ridley, Jasper

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670815268 ISBN 13: 9780670815265

Publisher: Viking Adult, 1988

Synopsis

This portrait of Elizabeth I reveals her as a consummate politician, a champion of the Reformation, a woman who firmly established England as a world power, and a leader in art, science, and commerce

About this title

About the Author:

Jasper Ridley FRSL is a distinguished historical author whose Henry VIII and Elizabeth I are published in the US by PPI. They now join the Penguin Classic Biography list. Other books by the author include Thomas Cranmer, Lord Palmerston, Garibaldi and Napoleon III and Eugenie.

From Publishers Weekly:

British biographer of John Knox, Henry VIII and other personages, Ridley here broadens the reader's understanding of Elizabeth I as a woman who prevailed through "shrewdness." Born in 1533, she was intelligent and aware from childhood on that the times were dangerous for people with royal blood. Along with her half sister Mary, the daughter of Anne Boleyn was declared illegitimate but not disowned by Henry VIII. Elizabeth was docile and undemanding, subservient to Bloody Mary and wary always, even when she became queen in 1558. Ripley views the Virgin Queen as a manipulator, frequently indecisive and mistaken in judgment, at considerable cost to England. But during the 45 years of her reign, the arts flourished and England became the mightiest country in the Western world. Elizabeth was widely mourned when she died in 1603, although she was notoriously cruel to anyone suspected of disloyalty. Photos not seen by PW.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Adult
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0670815268
• ISBN 13: 9780670815265
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 391