Elizabeth and Essex: A Tragic History by Lytton Strachey
Elizabeth and Essex: A Tragic History

Lytton Strachey

Elizabeth and Essex: A Tragic History

Lytton Strachey

312 pages first pub 1928 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative medium-paced
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When the Earl of Essex succeeded his stepfather, the Earl of Leicester, as Queen Elizabeth's favorite, he was 21 and the Queen was in her mid-fifties. She was imperious and demanding; he was spoiled and ambitious, but shrewd and with an eye toward...

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