In the Days of Queen Elizabeth (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Kipling, Rudyard March

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 144008596X ISBN 13 : 9781440085963

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2010

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

OF all the sovereigns that have ,yom the cro"vn
of England, Queen Elizabeth is the most puzzling,
the most fascinating, the most blindly
praised, and the most unjustly blamed. To make
lists of her faults and virtues is easy. One may
say vith little fear of contradiction that her intellect
'was magnificent and her vanity almost incredibly
childish; that she ,vas at one time the
most outspoken of women, at another the most
untruthful; that on ()f')~ occasi0n sl-Je 'N0nld mani-
.). . .' .
fest a dignity tha{ -&'~-,~ i .. ~t.fy s')v~re!gp., vhile on
another the rudeness . .of h~( rr.·anners 'was un
vorthy of even the age~in vrhic!1 ~he lived. Sometimes
she vas the strongcst of !h~ strong, sometimes
the weakest of the weak.
At a distance of three hundred years it is not
easy to balance these claims to censure and to
admiration, but at least no one should forget that
the little white hand of ,vhich she vas so vain

Table of Contents

CONTENTS; chapter page; I The Baby Princess i; II The Child Elizabeth 20; III A Boy King 39; IV Giving Away a Kingdom 56; V A Princess in Prison 75; VI From Prison to Throne95; VII A Sixteenth Century Coronation 113; VIII A Queen's Troubles132; IX Elizabeth and Philip150; X Entertaining a Queen169; XI Elizabeth's Suitors188; XII The Great Sea-captains208; XIII The New World227; XIV The Queen of Scots245; XV The Spanish Armada263; XVI Closing Years , , 280

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.

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Biographie de l'auteur :

Eva March Tappan (1854–1930) was a teacher and American author born in Blackstone, Massachusetts, the only child of Reverend Edmund March Tappan and Lucretia Logée. Eva graduated from Vassar College in 1875. She was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and an editor of the Vassar Miscellany. After leaving Vassar she began teaching at Wheaton College where she taught Latin and German from 1875 until 1880. From 1884–94 she was the Associate Principal at the Raymond Academy in Camden, New Jersey. She received graduate degrees in English Literature from the University of Pennsylvania. Tappan was the head of the English department at the English High School at Worcester, Massachusetts. She began her literary career writing about famous characters in history and developed an interest in writing children books. Tappan never married.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2010
• ISBN 10: 144008596X
• ISBN 13: 9781440085963
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320