The First Elizabeth
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ISBN10: 031216842X
ISBN13: 9780312168421
Trade Paperback
448 Pages
$24.99
CA$34.99
Widely acclaimed historian Carolly Erickson here reveals the legendary British monarch as a living, breathing, elegant, flirtatious, diplomatic, violent, arrogant, and outrageous woman. Good Queen Bess is made real, immediate, and human in this thorough biography, and so commands our attention and awe as never before.
Hailed in The New York Times Book Review as "a vivid and eminently readable portrait of history's favorite Tudor," The First Elizabeth evokes with ample scholarship and careful fidelity the brilliant colors of Elizabethan clothing and jewelry, the texture of tapestries, and even the close, perfumed air of castle rooms—as well as the psychological and physical realities of the age.
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"Erickson is a great interpreter of history. She writes political history, but embeds it into social and, even more, humane history. She's likely to be the Barbara Tuchman of her generation."—David Herlihy, Harvard University
"[This biography is] even more readable and absorbing than the justly praised works of Tuchman and Fraser."—The Philadelphia Inquirer
"A masterpiece of narrative, a story so absorbing it is as hard to put down as a fine novel."—Edward M. White, Los Angeles Times Book Review
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Carolly Erickson
