[Sca-librarians] Queen Elizabeth I Book request info

[Hillary Greenslade]

How about a book on letters written by and to Elizabeth I, I picked up a copy at 
Half-Price Books some time ago, has images of actual letters in their own hand.  


Enjoy, Hillary

Elizabeth I: Her Life in Letters [Hardcover]Felix Pryor (Author) 
	* Hardcover: 144 pages 
	* Publisher: University of California Press; 1 edition (November 17, 2003) 
	* Language: English 
	* ISBN-10: 0520241061 
	* ISBN-13: 978-0520241060 
Review
""A fascinating collection of the letters of Queen Elizabeth, along with a 
commentary on her life. It makes for a cracking read." 


Product Description
Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) ruled England for 45 turbulent years, and her 
reign has come to be seen as a golden age. She exercised supreme authority in a 
man's world, while remaining intensely feminine. She was Gloriana, the Virgin 
Queen, but is also held up as a role model for company executives in the 
twenty-first century. She is a near-legendary figure from a remote past who 
remains fascinatingly modern. 

This handsome volume has been published to commemorate the 400th anniversary of 
Elizabeth I's death in 1603. It illustrates in color and, where possible, in 
actual size, sixty manuscripts--either by Elizabeth or to her. Each one is 
accompanied by a running commentary, explaining the document and placing it in 
its historical context, and selected transcriptions or, where necessary, 
translations from the originals. 

Elizabeth was a girl of extraordinary precocity and a brilliant linguist. Her 
early letters, written in a beautiful italic, are to her forbidding father, 
Henry VIII, and to her brother and sister, Edward VI and "Bloody" Mary. The very 
first letter dates from when she was a child of eleven. The last, written nearly 
60 years later, is a barely-legible scrawl addressed to her successor, the 
future James I. The letters from her in-tray are no less extraordinary. Tsar 
Ivan the Terrible rounds on her in a blind fury after she refuses to marry him. 
The Earl of Essex, young enough to be her son, pours out declarations of love: a 
few pages further on is to be found her signed warrant for his execution. There 
are letters from ministers and galley slaves, spies and traitors, coded letters, 
warrants for torture, speeches to parliament, and the original--only recently 
identified--of the most famous of all her utterances: "I know I have the body 
but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king." 


 



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Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 21:59:49 -0500
From: Nancy Shapiro <tiggyn at alum.wellesley.edu>
Subject: [Sca-librarians] Queen Elizabeth I Book request info
To: "sca-librarians at lists.gallowglass.org"
    <SCA-Librarians at lists.gallowglass.org>

Hi folks,

A friend of mine is looking for recommendations for books on Queen Elizabeth
(Henry VIII's daughter, the Tudor one).  I told her I had just the resource
to put her question to, and told her about the SCA-Librarians.  Being a
former SCAdian, she was delighted, & the details are listed below.
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