Author: Diane Stanley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780605973459
Category : Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Diane Stanley
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 46

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"This biography of Queen Elizabeth I does an excellent job of describing the context of her life so that reasons for many of her actions become clear . . . The resulting depth . . . will give the book a wide audience".--Booklist, starred review. Bibliography included. 1990 Notable Children's Book in the Field of Social Studies.

Author: Alida Malkus
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 177

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A biography of Elizabeth I of England. Her early life was lonely and spent mostly away from court. When she finally assumed the throne, she ruled over a land at the height or great political and artistic triumphs.

Author: Diane Stanley
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0688179614
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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She was a queen whose strong will, shrewd diplomacy, religious tolerance and great love for her subjects won the hearts of her people and the admiration of her enemies. Elizabeth was born into an age of religious strife, in which plots and factions were everywhere and private beliefs could be punished by death. When she became queen, her counselors urged her to marry quickly and turn the responsibilities of governing over to her husband, But she outwitted them by stalling, changing her mind; and playing one side against another, as she steered her country to the glorious era of peace and security that would be called the Elizabethan Age. Elizabeth's forceful personality, colorful court, and devoted subjects come vividly to life in this stellar picture-book biography. When it was first published, Good Queen Bess was named a Notable Book in the Field of Social Studies, an American Library Association Notable Book, a Booklist Editors' Choice, an American Bookseller Pick of the Lists, a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book, and an IRA Teachers' Choice. In this welcome reissue, celebrated author and illustrator Diane Stanley and her husband, Peter Vennema, paint an impressive portrait of the remarkable queen who loved her people so dearly and ruled them so well.

Author: Alida Sims Malkus
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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One of the high points in the history of world civilization was the Elizabethan Age in England, when the English were setting sail to explore the New World, and poets and playwrights like Ben Jonson and Will Shakespeare were fashioning the crown of English literature. The inspiration of the age-and the one who gave the name to it-was Queen Elizabeth, the high-spirited, redhaired daughter of Henry VIII. Contrary to what you might expect, the young Princess Elizabeth led a lonely life in the country with only her governess and tutor for companions. Joyfully she received news that she was recalled to the court by her father. Even in the sumptuous palace at Whitehall, ten-year-old Elizabeth was not happy. Her father was suspicious of everyone, even of his children, and she had to watch her tongue carefully. But one day her quick wit got the better of her, and she was banished from the court to live with her little brother Edward. It was many years later, during which frail Edward died and their sister Mary held the country in her grip, before Elizabeth herself came to the throne. In The Story of Good Queen Bess, Alida Sims Malkus surpasses herself with the vivid and absorbing story of Elizabeth as a princess and as the queen who ruled England in her greatest glory. Fifty-three pages of intricate line drawings by Douglas Gorsline.

Author: Elizabeth Jenkins
Publisher: Phoenix
ISBN: 9781842121627
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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Elizabeth Jenkins illuminates in great detail the personal and private life of Elizabeth 1. Was she bald? What precisely was her sex-life? What were her emotional attachments?No other biography provides such a personal study of the Queen and her court - their daily lives, concerns, topics of conversation, meals, living conditions, travels, successes and failures - but it also places them firmly within the historical context of 16th Century Britain. An authoritative history of the period enlightened by a through understanding of Elizabethan society and an intimate portrait of the Queen.

Author: Kerrie Logan Hollihan
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 1569768854
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 145

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One of England's most fascinating monarchs is brought to life in this hands-on study for young minds. Combining projects, pictures, and sidebars with an authoritative biography, children will develop an understanding of the Reformation, Shakespearean England, and how Elizabeth's 45-year reign set the stage for the English Renaissance and marshaled her country into a chief military power. Providing 21 activities, from singing a madrigal and growing a knot garden to creating a period costume--complete with a neck ruff and a cloak for the queen's court--readers will experience a sliver of life in the Elizabethan age. For those who wish to delve deeper, a time line, online resources, and a reading list are included to aid in further study.

Author: Jacob Abbott
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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Author: Helen Castor
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141980893
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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Part of the Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers in a collectible format In the popular imagination, as in her portraits, Elizabeth I is the image of monarchical power. The Virgin Queen ruled over a Golden Age: the Spanish Armada was defeated and England's enemies scattered; English explorers reached almost to the ends of the earth; a new Church of England rose from the ashes of past conflict, and the English Renaissance bloomed in the genius of Shakespeare, Spenser and Sidney. But the image is also armour. In this illuminating new account of Elizabeth's reign, Helen Castor shows how England's iconic queen was shaped by profound and enduring insecurity-an insecurity which was both a matter of practical political reality and personal psychology. From her precarious upbringing at the whim of a brutal, capricious father and her perilous accession after his death, to the religious division that marred her state and the failure to marry that threatened her line, Elizabeth lived under constant threat. But, facing down her enemies with a compellingly inscrutable public persona, the last and greatest of the Tudor monarchs would become a timeless, fearless queen.

Author: Jane Resh Thomas
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395691205
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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A biography of Elizabeth I, Queen of England, from her troubled childhood through her forty year reign.