<div>Hi folks,</div>
<div> </div>
<div class="gmail_quote">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. <br>
<br>Thanks.<br><br>Ki-lin<br><span class="highlightedSearchTerm">Librarian</span>s like to be given <span class="highlightedSearchTerm">trouble</span>; <span class="highlightedSearchTerm">the</span>y exist for it, <span class="highlightedSearchTerm">the</span>y are geared to it. For <span class="highlightedSearchTerm">the</span> location of a mislaid volume, an uncatalogued item, your good <span class="highlightedSearchTerm">librarian</span> has a ferret's nose. Give her a scent and she <span class="highlightedSearchTerm">jumps</span> <span class="highlightedSearchTerm">the</span> leash, her eye bright with battle."<br>
(Ca<span class="highlightedSearchTerm">the</span>rine Drinker Bowen. From: Adventures of a Biographer, 1959)<br><br>
<div vlink="purple" link="blue" lang="EN-US">
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Hi, Nancy,</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Here’s the description of what I’m looking for:</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">I’d like to find a really good biography of Queen Elizabeth I. If possible, I’d like it to be:</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.5in;" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><span>1)<font face="Times New Roman" size="1"><span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></font></span></span></font><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Thorough—her entire life, not just one section of it</span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.5in;" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><span>2)<font face="Times New Roman" size="1"><span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></font></span></span></font><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Historically accurate—I don’t want a book that deals in the author’s wishful fabrications. I am, however, quite delighted with a book that states two different versions of events and then objectively details the reasons in support of or against each version.</span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.5in;" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><span>3)<font face="Times New Roman" size="1"><span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></font></span></span></font><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Detailed—I love detail. Little excerpts from letters, little (historically accurate) quirks about a person, etc. (like maybe they wouldn’t eat pigeon, or they loved collecting knife rests) (yes, my grandmother collected the knife rests).</span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.5in;" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><span>4)<font face="Times New Roman" size="1"><span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></font></span></span></font><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Well written—I can’t say enough about this point. Books that are not well written sap much of the joy out of learning. It would be a crying shame to see Elizabeth I’s story ruined by tortured and belabored prose. She was a fascinating person; it should be quite easy to write a fascinating book about her.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">So, that’s it in a nutshell. Any recommendations?</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Thank you thank you thank you!!!</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">And thank you, Nancy, for being willing to post this for me!</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Hope you’re having a good week!</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Natasha</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></font></p></div></div></div><br>